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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] What annoys me is the special treatment and perks the athletes get once in the school.

Athletes at my Ivy League school got free one-on-one tutoring and were allowed to skip classes and were given special notes and videos of the classes they missed. I had to work many hours at my exhausting work study job to make money. I would have liked a tutor to help make up for the time I also was too “busy” to study.[/quote]

This is so far off base you must be a troll.  I have three kids who were athletes at different Ivy schools.  They practiced/played 20 hours per week and traveled on weekends on top of being science/math majors, with zero tutoring available to them (other than what was available to non-athletes).  They also had to practice all summer in addition to their internships.  [b]They, and many of their teammates, definitely had high school academic profiles that were similar (often better) than the average student admitted to their schools.[/b]  Some of their teammates also had work-study jobs on top of their already-packed schedules.  So sorry -if you were too busy to study because you had 10-15 hours a week of class and a work-study job, you need better time management skills (which you would have learned growing up if you had played a club sport outside of your high school, like all the recruited athletes).[/quote]

I don't disagree with you, but I find it hard to believe that many Ivy League athletes have academic profiles "better" than the average Ivy League admit.  How do you quantify that?[/quote]

I think it's more important to quantify "many" rather than "better" here.  There are always a good amount of extremely smart kids (I had 3x 1600 SAT kids in my class alone playing lacrosse at an HYP, and the team average was probably about 1450 when I was there), but there are admittedly many more reasonably smart kids (think 1400 SAT and top 5% of their high school class vs. 1600/valedictorian/Westinghouse-Intel-Regeneron) playing sports at the Ivies.  They're not dumb, certainly, but it's not fair to anyone to say that the majority would get in without help from the admissions office.

[quote=Anonymous]What annoys me is the special treatment and perks the athletes get once in the school.

Athletes at my Ivy League school got free one-on-one tutoring and were allowed to skip classes and were given special notes and videos of  the classes they missed.  I had to work many hours at my exhausting work study job to make money. I would have liked a tutor to help make up for the time I also was too “busy” to study. [/quote]

They get the same free tutoring that's offered to the entire student body, athletes and non-athletes alike.

The only time athletes are allowed to "skip classes" is generally for away games, and most Ivy administrations are pretty serious about limiting that sort of thing.  What sort of "special notes" were they given?  Do you imagine that Ivy League professors and TAs are bending over backwards to help their athlete students?  I always found it was much the opposite, and experienced a good amount of outright hostility at times.  [/quote]

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