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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Actually the reason athletes get a hook is not because of what they learned on the field, though that is valuable,  Just like arts/music/theater provide value.

The reason they were given a hook is because research showed that students who only had good grades did not perform as well in college as athletes/artist/actors (minus the top 20% of the class)

The hook admissions started because schools ran into a problem with graduation rate and job placement when top students who were never anything but the top of their class end up at the bottom 3/4. Athletes/artist did not have this issue in the study so they decided to take athletes and artists to resolve this issue.[/quote]

LOL wat.

Athletes get a break with admissions because Ivy League schools all decided that they don't want their teams to suck.  That's it.[/quote]

No because their teams still aren’t really that good. They were just sick of the bottom half of the class crashing and burning[/quote]

Half the class crashing and burning? Do you realize how stupid you sound?[/quote]

Do you know how out of touch you sound?

They expect graduates to actually excel at life, they track graduates and pivot their admissions policies based on who is successful and who is not.[/quote]

And you think their answer was let’s get dumber people. [/quote]

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