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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was watching another thread where moms were arguing back and forth over athletic recruiting and it seemed like both neither side was talking about what I think is the real question. Why do they place so much value on them? It's not just the top SLACs, (they are very heavy on recruits) but it is the smaller R1s as well. MIT, Chicago, JHU, WashU, Rochester, etc. all recruit a large number of athletes. NYU as well. These[b] schools obviously see great value in athletic recruiting, what are we missing?[/quote]

Schools don’t want to be overpopulated with quirky, awkward nerds.[/quote]It would be a fun experiment to remove athletics from a NESCAC. My bet is the heaven of a pure meritocracy optimized for academic achievement would fail to materialize as students gradually lose interest in the school without athletics. Surely alumni giving would dry up as the team-based bonds that drive donor loyalty disappear. Students would become even more neurotic with the entire student body just focused on grades and clubs, with those becoming the only currencies of status and identity. And the brighter kids with interest beyond academics would ultimately choose to go elsewhere because the school would become a hellscape of misery of those focused on PhD programs. [/quote]

You are literally describing higher education in every other college in every other country in the world.  And yet these schools have not devolved into the hellscapes that you are imagining.

America is probably the only place in the world where you can get into a competitive school based on how well you play a sport.[/quote]Not exactly true or the Ivies would only follow minimum NCAA standards for athletic eligibility.  Why is there such demand from foreign students to attend U.S. institutions? Either foreign universities are hellscapes or U.S. universities are just better.

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