<p>My daughter’s high school had a young man who was recruited by many schools for baseball. His father is a former professional football player. The young man had over a 4.0 weighted GPA. He will be playing baseball for Stanford.</p>
<p>I see a ton of ludicrous examples of recruiting athletes to top schools. For example, OJ Mayo has told USC he wants to play there for a year, until he’s eligible for the NBA. He picked USC because he’ll get good exposure there, being in LA and all. I don’t think there is a interview out there where he mentions looking forward to taking classes at USC. </p>
<p>However, to hold up Stanford or the Ivies as examples of this is silly. Those schools have shown time and time again they will not recruit athletes that would not do well at their school. Qualified students may be losing places to qualified students that are also stellar athletes, but they are not losing places to unqualified students.</p>