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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-- $2 million gift (see: Jared Kushner, Harvard)
-- recruited athlete
-- URM with decent grades/scores[/quote]

I am so tired of this crap about URMs and recruited athletes having it made.  My kid is both.  College admissions was still stressful and difficult and it didn't help that people would say he "had it easy."  He got into a couple of 'elite' schools but turned them down for a school ( and a coach) who cared more about him as a person, not just an athletic asset.  And a school where he felt at home and at ease, rather than having to be 'on' all the time.
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It’s factually correct that being a URM recruiter athlete is a tremendous advantage in admissions, whether you like it or not.  Glad your child chose a college that was a good fit.....very smart and much more important in the long run then a meaningless ranking.[/quote]

The thing people forget about recruited athletes is the statement above is like saying “It’s factually correct that being admitted is a tremendous advantage in admissions”.  What you neglect is that recruited athletes have already run a different and equally incredibly competitive gamut to get recruited.  For every kid recruited to Harvard there are hundreds that tried and failed.  It’s just that rat race was run before true actual admissions.  (And even then the recruited athlete might not get in as Harvard only accepted 83% of their recruits according to the lawsuit data).

It ain’t the Sunday picnic people think it is.  Most fail.  Read the book “Recruiting in The Ivy Leauge” and you’ll learn the horror stories.  It’s WAY worse for most kids than just getting rejected, and way more expensive and time consuming.

For the record I am not a recruited athlete nor a parent of one.  Just interested.[/quote]

Yes, but all those kids who tried and failed had a 99.9% better chance of admissions than the kid who wasn't an athlete, but was only brilliant at physics.[/quote]

No, they didn't -- that's the point.  And they spend thousands of dollars and a great deal of time on the journey.  Seriously, read the book, you'll change your mind.  It is WAY better to be brilliant at physics.  Way, way better.[/quote]

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