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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I handle that better than dumb athletes at T10/20/Ivies.

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Those dumb athletes are both smarter and more successful than your children. Was just hanging out with some Cal and Stanford volleyball players this morning. They would eat your kids as snacks.[/quote]

Nope. Majority of athletes at top
Schools are told do not major in science, math, engineering, econ. The courses are graded on a curve such that the median is assigned a B or B+ for intro courses. Some athletes can hack it trying to be average compared to the non athletes who got in on merit. Most cannot. They are rightly pushed to grab an easier major![/quote]

Your assumptions might hold for power 4 schools and non selective mid majors but not at all for Ivies, Pat League,  NESCAC, UAA, etc. You’re rationalizing without any actual knowledge. [/quote]

We get the sports commit announcements on signing day and they post on Instagram. We can select for individual years. Stanford, SLACs, Georgetown, Duke, etc., the athletes are generally a tier below the regular admits. Some(depending on sport) much lower- test scores and/or gpa. [/quote]

[b]They aren't for the SLACs, Ivy, and Patriot League schools.[/b] There are specific rules to prevent wide drift. The rules are looser in the D1 schools and tighter in the D3 schools. NESCAC rules ensure that the majority of athletes are above the school median so they actually raise the bar.

The P4 schools whioch you mention above are a completely different situation. They aren't students, they are employees.[/quote]

This is largely true - although keep in mind that Ivys are DI. But, there is a reason the Ivys aren't sports powerhouses for the most part. The athletes have to not upset the averages. They don't have to necessarily bring them up, but they can't bring them down. In the cases of selective schools, the complaints about athletes lose credibility somewhat. Haters get annoyed because of non-athletes with great ECs, but the fact is that athletes have great ECs too. Those ECs just happen to be athletics. There are a number of athletes who are also very good students.[/quote]

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