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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Believe it or not, some kids can be athletes, artists, athletes, musicians AND strong students.

Please don't put the athletic admits into a box of being dumb jocks. At places like IVYs and NESCAC, these are generally incredibly multi-talented kids. That is why they are accepted.[/quote]

They can be but in almost all cases they are not[/quote]

True that’s why the top 1% end up at great schools with scholarships. (Yes I know Ivy schools don’t have scholarships, at least not ones given by the school.)[/quote]

They might be the top 1% compared to other athletes but they are in the bottom 10% compared to class of admitted students. They got a massive advantage just admit it. Why is that so hard for you?[/quote]

But they aren’t in general, their average GPA is > than the overall average.

A few are, that is because somebody has to be at the bottom of the class and Ivy schools found that smart kids in the bottom 10% kill themselves but artists and athletes don’t.

That’s why.[/quote]

You can’t look at performance in college. It’s what they looked like when they were admitted. And the data shows that the vast majority of admitted athletes have academic scores that would have seen them rejected otherwise.

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The data shows most would have been admitted but a small % of superstars are at the lower end of the admitted students. They all meet the Ivy index.[/quote]

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