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<p>Really? Are you sure that they are few and far between? </p>
<p>Just as an example, there are four sophomore varsity athletes in my AP Calc BC class, all of them have SAT scores that are well over 2100. I’ll give you a quick run down of three of them:</p>
<p>Person 1
Varsity Football, Soccer, Weightlifting
3.96 UW (rank: 9/460)</p>
<p>Person 2
Varsity Basketball, Weightlifting
4.0 UW (rank: 2/460)</p>
<p>Person 3 (me)
Varsity Water Polo, Swimming, Weightlifting (as well as private swimming and water polo during the offseason)
4.0 UW (rank: 1/460)</p>
<p>There are four such scholar-athletes in one of my classes, I can assure you there are dozens at my school (many recruitable). There are well over 20,000 schools so the number of such scholar-athletes is in the hundreds of thousands. So are these students really that rare? There is only one USAMO qualifier at my school. Let’s see…last time I checked 1 < dozens…</p>
<p>Now IBFootballer I’m not disputing that DI or even DII athletes contribute more to schools than qualified math students, but your reasoning is heavily flawed.</p>