<p>I don’t think anyone was criticizing all high school athletes. I’m reading all of these indignant posts by parents of athletes. No one was talking about YOUR kid. We know there are students who are both academically competent and athletically gifted. We are thinking of those students of limited intellect, but get in over students who are academically gifted because they are a high school’s star athlete. I have an athletic daughter and know how you worry about them overdoing it while trying to pull off everything: academics, community service, school musicals, honor society AND their sport. But there are probably more average students getting in via community colleges than there are through sport scholarships anyway. (They just don’t get the kid glove treatment when they arrive).</p>