Quote from: PolarCat on December 04, 2014, 05:17:53 PM
I still think the whole argument is over-blown. I'd be amazed if MIT bend their admissions standards one iota for their football recruits, and the Engineers did pretty darn well this year. MIT proved that you can be a rocket scientist and a winning DIII QB at the same time.
I'd be willing to bet the kid who got the most Admissions help at __________ (fill in the blank: Amherst, Williams, Wes, wherever) is still brighter than 90% of the HS seniors in his graduating year.
Actually my youngest was recruited at some NESCAC schools and also MIT. Football is an admissions tiebreaker at MIT but the kids need to meet the admissions standards of the general population. On the other hand, the NESCAC schools have slots for admissions where kids are admitted with an academic index well below admission averages for each school.