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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) people need to get off the idea that the athletes are lesser students

2) people need to understand the sports, and particularly football, foster broader community spirit than any other activity

3) colleges need to fill slots, that includes staffing teams. if they have the choice between the A student with 1500+ and a lineman and the same student who isn't a lineman, guess which one they are going to take?[/quote]

they are lesser students more often than not so why do we need to get off that idea?

colleges do need to fill spots and in your example, it's more likely that they would take the lineman with a B+ average and 1300 SATs over the A student with 1500+ who did non-athletic activities.

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I’m not going to say for privacy purposes but it is an Olympic sport, not one of the more popular team spo

Depends on the school.  The ivies and similar get plenty of linesman with A avg and 1500+ SATs.  Unless you are Olympic caliber or nationally ranked in the top 200, sports prowess isnogoing to help much + top grades and SATs.[/quote]

My dd has two friends verbally committed to a top Ivy from her academically rigorous private.  One has top grades in honors classes.  The other is on the bottom third of her class.[/quote]

Really?  That’s amazing.  The top privates in the DMV sends their top 10% to the ivies and similar.  A bottom third getting in?  Did they donate $$$$$?[/quote]

Verbally committed means both girls are athletes.  No other hooks.[/quote]

What sport?  I know several athletes that were actively recruited by Ivies:  what they all had in common were that they all had great grades, 1500+ SATs and they were nationally ranked in their sport usually the top 50 in the country for individual sports like cross country and within the top 200 for lacrosse.  I have never heard of someone who did not poorly academically being recruited for any sport.[/quote]

Well, you have now.  And I know plenty of kids who scored well below 1500 and attended an Ivy for lacrosse.  Quite common among Baltimore private school recruits, most of the kids commit prior to have taken the SAT and then just care about meeting the minimum.  But the athlete who was in the bottom third of the class is not a lacrosse player.[/quote]

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