how much do sports REALLY help?

goblue10nis
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:34:43 +0000

What if you are at a really high level and have a lot of prestigious awards/rankings/championships, but you’re not good enough to play at the colleges you want to go to? I’m a tennis player, but because teams are so small and so many of the best players are foreign and the best players are rich and want to go to the best schools (unlike football, basketball), its not the best sport for the college acceptances into prestigious schools. I hope they would take the level of achievement seriously like any other EC, but sometimes I wonder if many of the best schools disregard really high achieving athletes if they aren’t being recruited and know they aren’t good enough for the college varsity team, even their relative level of success might, for example, mean getting recruited everywhere if it was another sport. Wow, that turned into a personal rant, sorry.