THIS! So all of them are above average academically? I highly doubt that. It’s sad because we all know why they are being accepted.

Anonymous wrote:OP did you not realize that D1 schools often select their recruited athletes for academics as well as athletics? There are tons of high level athletes out there - high school GPA becomes a differentiator in the recruiting process. Kids who want to be recruited know this.

Not if they are at top this is false

OP did you not realize that D1 schools often select their recruited athletes for academics as well as athletics? There are tons of high level athletes out there - high school GPA becomes a differentiator in the recruiting process. Kids who want to be recruited know this.

Anonymous wrote:If Potomac is very hard to get into, why is it that so many professional athletes kids attend the school? If it’s so academically inclined, how are these kids surviving? I mean I highly doubt they are all extremely academically gifted.

Money and clout

Hard to get into doesn't necessarily imply Potomac is strongly selecting for academics.

But for what it's worth, we have historically had the IQ numbers for football players, via the Wonderlic, and these range from OK to pretty good, even when playing concussed was the norm. And conscientiousness for professional athletes of all stripes tends to be higher than the general population, because those are the people more inclined to practice practice practice.

You dumb OP

I’m dying over this one. So you think that academic aptitude is reliably heritable, but whatever traits led someone to be a professional athlete in America would leave success at a reasonably rigorous high school out of reach?

If Potomac is very hard to get into, why is it that so many professional athletes kids attend the school? If it’s so academically inclined, how are these kids surviving? I mean I highly doubt they are all extremely academically gifted.