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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nephew is a recruited athlete and he got accepted into a couple of Ivies because of it.  One week after arriving on the college campus, he informed the coach that he would quit because he is going into pre med.  No scholarship involved so there wasn't much the coach could do.[/quote]
Something is off with this story as you are only going to be admitted to one school as a recruited athlete. Regardless, it’s really unethical to accept a coach’s offer and quit the sport immediately. Does not say good things about your nephew’s character. [/quote]

Yeah sounds like an unethical loser [/quote]

It happens more than you think.  Once you're on campus, you can quit and nothing the coach or the school can do about it.  Young adults can change their minds, right?
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No one is arguing that the coach or school can do anything about it, but no one “changes their mind” without ever practicing and playing for the team at all their freshman year.  You are talking about a kid who lied to the coach about his intentions so he could lock in his automatic admission with no intention of playing. Doing so screws over the coach, the team, and the honest, talented kid who ought to have gotten the admissions boost over him. [/quote]

Most kids that are on college teams major in either business or basket weaving degree.  Very few of them major in some useful degrees like STEM or pre-med.  For some, they didn't realize how competitive STEM and/or pre-med is until they get on campus.  Therefore, it is normal for some of them to quit because of the college course load.  Perfectly normal.
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Loads of college athletes major in STEM subjects, Econ, or other majors that even a snob like you would consider “useful” and go on to become doctors, lawyers, professors or finance executives.  Sure, there are kids who drop there sport after freshman or sophomore year because balancing it with their academic courseload is too difficult or they no longer enjoy the sport. But the only cases where a recruited athlete quits their sport before they ever start playing it in college are those where the student has a serious injury, a mental health break, or is an unethical loser who lied to the coach. [/quote]

It really depends on the sport and the school.  Very few of the D1 athletes I knew in college were STEM majors; my club rowing team, however, was chock full of them.  It would be very hard to play, for example D1 football and be an engineering major at a top school.  Not impossible, but very difficult.[/quote]

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