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I'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 scholarsh

I'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 ago
That'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 ago
  The 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 ago
    They 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-...