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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also every so often these slac schools use sports to increase their chances of gettting a top student.

My kids has 1580 SAT, 4.7 GPA, and will have 15 AP courses after senior year. Great leadership in a few different other areas besides the sport. Great service. Definitely a narrative. Ivy legacy.

But the kid wants to play the sport so it is looking like NESCAC or UAA league as not good enough to play at the Ivy.[/quote]

This happens, but I doubt that often. More anecdata: a student-athlete classmate was talking about their 32 ACT and 3s on AP exams, in the context of saying how well prepared they felt for Amherst. Shortly after, they dropped the upper-level science class both had signed up for. My kid was a little perplexed about how the classmate was admitted in the first place. I had to explain athletes aren't necessarily held to the same standard they were. This was not a FGLI or URM. [/quote]

Yea, well, your kid needs to get over their jealousy or insecurity or whatever it is when it comes to athletes.  There’s no shame in having to drop an “upper level science class” at any top school no matter what your ACT score is.   [/quote]

Yeah, meanwhile my 1570 DC with nearly perfect GPA, published researched (not canned), etc. got waitlisted.[/quote]

Yes, that's not fair. I can see how PP with the high stats athlete could get in over your kid, but not the lower-stats one. There should be more transparency about the hard academic stats for admitted athletes. [b]Let stakeholders see the actual extent to which admissions standards are, or are not, modified. Let's also see the data on game attendance and alumni donations. My guess is none will be impressive[/b], but let the data prove me wrong!

Agree. If there is nothing to hide, simply provide the data.[/quote]

What would "showing this" look like?

Regarding donations, you are incorrect. Check out most major donations and you will see that they are made by athletes and former athletes. [b]If you were able to access the sites during the athletics annual fundraising drives you'd see anonymous donors tossing out $100K matching donations on some teams.[/b] Wealthy athletic alum support their old teams, especially from the helmet sports.[/quote]

Link to this data?[/quote]

What part of this are you struggling with? We aren't in that season but if you wait until next fall and start watching schools athletics social media you will likely be able to access some of the sites and see for yourself.

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