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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly—playing team sports prepares you for the real world and weeds out snowflake tendencies. [/quote]

if that's true, then the admissions hook should be given to anyone who plays team sports and not just those who are good at them. it's the participation that matters.[/quote]

Participation is not it. It is the commitment. And by commitment, I mean the vastly increased hours, management, effort and focus that an elite athlete that plays on a high level select team puts in over an athlete that plays in a rec league. There is simply no comparison and college admissions recognize this.[/quote]

[b]On that same high level select team are athletes who put in the same hours, management, effort and focus, they just aren't as good. Those kids are learning the exact same lessons[/b] and no one is bending admissions criteria for them. Why not? If the reason to recruit athletes is because they (and only they) are learning these lessons, then your actual ability shouldn't matter.

"hours, management, effort and focus" and your 'commitment' are all tied to participation, not skill.[/quote]

Nope. I completely disagree.

I have a son who plays on a rather elite lacrosse team. He is pretty good and he does put in a lot of time training and traveling to games and tournaments. But he is not like the top players on his team. Those boys are all in, 100% devoted to their sport. They arrive at practice first and leave last, they do fitness on their own time and work with coaches on their off days. They travel to local colleges to watch games there. They live and breathe their sport and they are different. It is hard to explain but while my son is a very good player and is on the same team as them (but is not a starter) he is not the same. My son has not looked to play in college next year and that is of course a decision we support. He has had a great time and learned much from his sport.

The other boys, though, they are impressive in ways that I can not exactly articulate and I would think that a college would value the traits they possess.[/quote]

that's sentimental claptrap. a college should value someone who plays lacrosse because they 'live and breathe their sport?" the only trait they're exhibiting is monomania.[/quote]

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