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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Loads of college athletes major in STEM subjects[/b], 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]

My DS athlete attends UNC Chapel Hill and the number of athletes majoring in STEM can be counted on one hand.  I am LOL at "loads of athletes".  Do you have any numbers to back up that claim?
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Do you really think you and your DS know the majors of ALL the student-athletes on campus? Or that UNC Chapel Hill is representative of all D1 schools? Give me a break. It's very dependent on the sport. Probably more than half of the men on my D1 swim team were engineering or computer science majors, at a school known for those programs. Quite a few of the women ended up going to vet school, PA school, PT school, and the like. People in non-revenue generating sports are not stupid. They know they need to get a useful degree that will lead to a grad program or job afterward. Of course it was different for football where they all thought they had a shot at making the pros. Enough of them did make it that it seemed like a real possibility. [/quote]

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