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[quote=Anonymous]School and society value athletes because it is a scarce skill set just like gold or diamond is value for their scarcity For an good athlete with good grades, there are hundreds of other good/better grade kids (non-athlete) that the school can chose from. Thus, it is harder to field a athletic team than to fill a class with very smart kids. Of course, for the non-athletic kid who won the science bowl and math Olympia, elite schools will have a place for them. Again, you kid may be very smart - high 1500 SAT, 4.0+ GPA, ECs.....but so does many many other kids! It is all a numbers game - school have to complete with other schools for athletes. If Harvard admitted all of the candidates on the wait-list instead of those who were admitted, no one will really notice a difference in the caliber of the class. We are all replaceable. Athletes are just much harder to replace than a smart student. [/quote]
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