<p>Well, siserune, thankfully you are not a forum administrator, so you have no legitimacy to delete postings of mine that reaffirm that Admissions Officers have reiterated evidence that athletes continue to perform well after admitted. She never said that they were the top academic performers of the undergraduate class, nor did I say so. Rather, she, as well as others, have asserted that athletes at reach schools (not state schools) continue to earn 3.0’s and above and that such GPA’s are not uncommon for non-athletes as well, particularly in the most demanding colleges, against well-prepared students. She’s saying that they’re holding their own, which is all I ever asserted. Plenty of previously high-academically performing students prior to entrance are later outperformed here and there by athletes and other classmates.</p>
<p>At universities for which sports is still a major draw, you will not see a strict academic merit system for admission. Sports is part of the merit which qualifies a candidate who will be dedicating much of his next four years to that aspect of the U’s campus life & priorities.</p>