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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also every so often these slac schools use sports to increase their chances of gettting a top student.

My kids has 1580 SAT, 4.7 GPA, and will have 15 AP courses after senior year. Great leadership in a few different other areas besides the sport. Great service. Definitely a narrative. Ivy legacy.

But the kid wants to play the sport so it is looking like NESCAC or UAA league as not good enough to play at the Ivy.[/quote]

This happens, but I doubt that often. More anecdata: a student-athlete classmate was talking about their 32 ACT and 3s on AP exams, in the context of saying how well prepared they felt for Amherst. Shortly after, they dropped the upper-level science class both had signed up for. My kid was a little perplexed about how the classmate was admitted in the first place. I had to explain athletes aren't necessarily held to the same standard they were. This was not a FGLI or URM. [/quote]

Yea, well, your kid needs to get over their jealousy or insecurity or whatever it is when it comes to athletes.  There’s no shame in having to drop an “upper level science class” at any top school no matter what your ACT score is.   [/quote]

Yeah, meanwhile my 1570 DC with nearly perfect GPA, published researched (not canned), etc. got waitlisted.[/quote]

Because the research they published was not in the 1% of published research, it's just another article nobody will read and no new therapies will come from it.  Athletes are performing in the 1% of the nation. [/quote]

And yet no one cares about or attends their games at the D3 level. [/quote]

Yet they raise more money for the school than your kid does. They have lower drop out rates. They give the school name recognition. They excel after graduation. They create community. They have high GPA’s. They recruit away from the Ivy League. [/quote]

These are all generic talking points, with little data to back them up. Give the school name recognition, what?? Who was the last famous Amherst athlete? I'll wait. Create community with so few game attendees, how exactly? They don't recruit away from the Ivy League, that's absurd. [/quote]

They literally have a NESCAC network. It doesn’t matter if there is a “famous athlete” people learn anbout Amherst through sports.

Just because you are not part of that community doesn’t mean one isn’t built. The sports team have a community… they have community during their time there and it extends into the working world.

My son’s team (T30 not NESCAC) had a guy accepted to Harvard and one accepted to MIT. My other son had similar students.

Yes all the athletes are a big community that extend far and wide.[/quote]

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