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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are playing football or basketball for a P4 college they will help you academically.  And, in some non-P4s as well.  But, eventually, for everyone else you have to go to class.  That is where you really run into issues.  Being the dumbest in a class is not good, and that can happen when you push to get into a better college.  
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Oh man, I’m about to blow your mind.  Many student athletes with average to above average (but not perfect) academic stats are actually quite smart.

Smart kids can absolutely keep up in the vast majority of these “elite” university classes even if they didn’t spend every weekend at Kumon or take their SAT six times to get those perfect stats to be considered for admission.[/quote]

Ha, I’m PP and this post also irritated me as well. I attended a fairly ‘elite’ college that was a feeder from private schools and I can honestly say it wasn’t as challenging as I expected based on its rank (lots of grade inflation, for one) and I found that lots of kids had a tremendous amount of support to achieve those top scores that got them in. My family wasn’t poor but my parents weren’t prestige college focused and didn’t do all of the things that my friend’s parents did as a matter of course (SAT prep, tutors, app help, helping to craft extracurriculars, etc).

My dc is a kid who might end up at an academic school somewhat above his general stats, and I think he’ll be fine. [/quote]

PP and similar experience here.  I’m sure your kid will do great, if for no other reason than it sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders and I’m sure that must have rubbed off.

My high school kid is very serious about athletics and not so much about academics, and frankly I am fine with that.  I’m confident that wherever he lands he’ll continue to be smart enough to know his own strengths and limitations (e.g. he will probably skip the quantum physics no matter where he goes).[/quote]

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