backhanded compliments directed at your kid

[monstor344]

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With all due respect, my great suspicion is that your athlete was more singular than your academic son. Its a lot harder to be all-state than it is to put up 1450 and 3.9 on the academic side. If you are in the group that overlaps both high academic and high athletic, you are highly prized at the elite academic schools. That group is not all that large…which is why the “help” seems disproportionate.

Question: What does everybody think, in turn, of the athlete recruited to an Ivy that has something like, say, a 3.6 and 1790 SAT? Do we feel the same about them as we do about the athlete who got in with a 4.0 and 2320? Can we legitimately say that the former, because he was cleared by admissions, belongs in that school academically as much as anyone else? Genuine questions, not rhetorical.</p>