<p>I’ve never understood threads like this. They seem to simultaneously imply two things:
Attending HYP is a good thing and there are many people in your high school who would somehow be right for these schools.
HYP have unfair admissions processes that admit people who you don’t feel belong in an “elite” college.</p>
<p>There isn’t some kind of conspiracy or hoodwinking going on here. If this athletic recruit is actually admitted to HYP, that tells you something about the admissions practices at HYP. The image of these schools you seem to have is probably not all that accurate…</p>
<p>Harvard wants VERY brainy students. It has that history. What college doesn’t?</p>
<p>Harvard wants athletes. They have ball teams. Most colleges do.</p>
<p>OFTEN, “ne’er the twain shall meet”. </p>
<p>Havard wants kids who can play the violin, be president of the clubs, and represent a minority. Harvard wants rich and poor, foreign and domestic.</p>
<p>They are a private institution, who can “build” their classes as they sit fit.</p>
<p>Life’s not fair. Never was. Never will be. We each have to stand up for ourselves, but only to the level we feel is moral. We each have a different breaking point in that definition. Some will call in favors, others will cheat. Mean people CAN/DO “get ahead”. We hope, and try to prevent that. We join forces against it. But it WILL prevail, sometimes. </p>
<p>No one from your school, mean or not, who goes to Harvard as a recruited athlete, will be taking any spots away from anyone else at your school, nice or not, who deserves to go academically. </p>