NY Times: There’s No Off in This Season

[cobrat]

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I’m not completely following what was the point of asking about cobrat’s background and the subsequent posts.

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<p>Probably due to your prior posts like:</p>

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First, the Ivy feeder schools of yore were private, preparatory high schools. Isn’t it likely that to in order to find talented athletes in some sports like track or football they had to expand their net to public school students from schools on a different academic level than Exeter? Heck, in the Ivy town near me, none of the private schools even have a track or field track teams. Cross country maybe, but not track. Even four years ago when D attended an HYPS accepted student luncheon in our region, the only public school kids present were athletes.

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<p>The seeming implication from that is that only private prep high schools provide academically prepared non-athlete students. Funny considering there are plenty of famous private prep schoolers whose undergrad academic performance was mediocre as shown by famous Ivy alums like FDR* and a recent past president known more for statements like “putting food on your family”. </p>

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<li>FDR recounted in a biography I read that the classes were “like a dim bulb” and he accepted being a gentleman C student at H.<br></li>
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