Why top high school athletes should go Ivy

nhparent9
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:14:33 +0000

If a kid plays a headcount sport like basketball or football (males), then the lure of a full scholarship vs. having to pay a portion, or potentially all of a tuition bill can be difficult to reconcile. That said, regarding the above sarcastic response, the likelihood that the Columbia kid with a classics education is reporting to an Ohio State FOOTBALL player is probably not that great. Not because Ohio State isn’t a fine school, it most certainly is, with excellent qualified graduates who I’m sure fill leadership positions. The problem is if you are a Power 5 D1 football player, the opportunity to select a demanding major is almost always very limited - far more so than in the Ivy League. However, in the spirit of playing along, I think there’s a reasonable chance that your Ohio State manager in turn reports to an Ivy/Penn-Wharton educated person who had every opportunity to be an athlete and study what they wanted. If they competed in an equivalency sport, they probably paid less for that Ivy education as well.

However, I completely agree there are many paths to a quality education.