<p>I don't think that Ivy League schools will diminish their academic reputations if they give out athletic scholarships for varsity teams. One con about me going to Pton instead of say Stanford or Duke (I was admitted to both) is that I will probably never have an opportunity get to really get crazy about March Madness (which i love) or the college football BCS series. I would love to see Pton battle for the Rose Bowl or the Orange Bowl. I think it would be great. We will never be competitive if we don't give out scholarships. I mean Stanford has always given out scholarships so who's to say Pton can't do it too?</p>
<p>Well, the Ivy League agreement says Princeton can't give out athletic scholarships. </p>
<p>I think that agreement was put in place to preserve the intellectual atmosphere of the universities by not recruiting any athlete by offering free tuition. However, I think it'd be fair to take a second look at this since times have changed and not all "jocks" are stupid, and can be very very intelligent.</p>
<p>If they do ever end up giving out athletic scholarships, I think merit scholarships should be implemented as well, just to even out the playing field. :)</p>
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I would agree with you if it weren't impossible to give out merit scholarships in the Ivy League, since everyone is stratospherically talented.</p>
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I would agree with you if it weren't impossible to give out merit scholarships in the Ivy League, since everyone is stratospherically talented.
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<p>Yes, it's possible- just have a tuition cut for everyone!</p>
<p>Touch</p>
<p>as an athlete i would like to say that it's totally unfair and such, but I understand the value of that policy.</p>
<p>It preserves a certain atmosphere on the campuses that you wouldnt even find at a school like stanford which is up there acdemically. But lets not be naive to think that ivy league schools dont get around this technicality. Lets just say its not uncommon for ivy league schools to give over generous financial aid packages and "academic" grants to athletes</p>
<p>How about this: NO-ONE gets to buy athletes?</p>
<p>The Ivy League could give out athletic scholarshps if they chose to. They stopped giving them and they could resume. No one is forcing them into their current policy. But they choose not to give these scholarships to prevent the abuse that occurs at so many other schools --> athletes who are not qualified to be students being admitted and then dumped four years later with no degree and a nothing but crummy grades in a string of crib courses. </p>
<p>Under the athletic scholarship system, the term "student athlete" all too often becomes a joke: all athlete and no student.</p>
<p>that hasnt been true at stanford</p>
<p>Yes, Stanford does an admirable job of admitting reasonably academically qualified and graduating them. A few other schools do too. But there just aren't enough of these smart-and-highly-talented athletes to go around. The academic quality of many athletes drops off pretty sharply at schools where the emphasis is on winning and not academics. </p>
<p>The system in general is rife with academically-unprepared athletes being exploited by their schools. Decades ago the Ivy League wisely chose to check out of that rat race and refocus themselves into institutions of higher learning and not farm teams for the pro sports.</p>