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Because they want to become a CEO and not a baseball player? Competing at athletics at the highest level is a good preparer for the executive world. Certainly h
by HDThoreaun 3y ago
Because they want to become a CEO and not a baseball player? Competing at athletics at the highest level is a good preparer for the executive world. Certainly having a high standardized test score doesn't make you a better CEO candidate.
- schnitzelstoat 3y agoI'd rather have an engineer or an economist than someone who can hit a ball really well. Also we don't do this in the rest of the world, the athletic scholarships thing is almost uniquely American.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThat's fine, but you're not the one running harvard admissions. And they figure top high school baseball players bring something to the table that engineers and economists don't.
- Larrikin 3y agoThe Ivy Leagues famously don't give athletic scholarships. It's always news when they have a team that doesn't suck in sports people care about. Someone getting into a school on merit that has a serious hobby isn't the point of this discussion.
- lostlogin 3y agoThey don’t give scholarships but that isn’t quite the full story. The below link discusses ways a good sports background can make entrance considerably easier and costs far lower. https://www.quora.com/Can-a-sports-scholarship-get-you-into-Harvard?top_ans=249732640 https://www.quora.com/Can-a-sports-scholarship-get-you-into-...