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[quote=Anonymous]I wrote this a couple of weeks ago on another thread, but it seems a propos on this one:

I went to an HYPS many years ago and haven't really kept up with developments. But I ran into an old classmate who has. What he said is that even though it has gotten a lot more competitive to get in, the students are not actually as good as they were when we went and many struggle to do the work.

Where we had a very small percentage of students (well under 5%) who were accepted because of football or ice hockey or the occasional person who played an instrument needed for the orchestra, he claims that percentage is now 40%. That is, 40% are accepted because they fill a spot on a spots team, etc and if that spot were not available they would not be accepted.

So if you are going for an Ivy, it really pays off to do a sport you can really excel in, even better in a sport for which colleges are hungry for players. As PP says, however, it can come at a cost of being overwhelmed with the academic expectations in college. And, it may also come at the cost of reducing the academic rigor of these colleges, even as grade inflation makes the students look smarter than ever. [/quote]

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