<p>ADad, are you saying that student athletes deserve more recognition than student musicians, actors, debators, scientists, etc? The only way you can defend recruitment of athletes is by saying that athletic achievement in high school is superior to any other sort of achievement, even academic achievement. </p>
<p>When upper class athletes whose parents have been paying for private athletic coaching for a decade only have to be “in range” to be admitted, but their nonathletic classmates have to take their chances in a system that is essentially a lottery, even if they have academic records above the 75th percentile, that’s exactly what you are saying.</p>