“Congratulations you’ve been accepted to (insert dream college of choice),” your friends college acceptance leader reads as you both open them at the same. Disappointingly, yours states the opposite. The difference between you two? Your friend plays football, you don’t.
What’s more important? A students academic achievements, or their achievements on the field? In our athletically, and academically, competitive society, college admission boards seem to believe that student-athletes are a priority over those who have actually met the academic standards.
I believe student-athlete recruits should not be admitted if they do not meet normal academic standards.
According to a study of admissions data, the Associated Press found that student-athletes
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Even in an N.C.A.A. survey the students of these schools admit to being an athlete before a student.
Then those who are denied are students who took multiple challenging classes at a time, students who stay up all night writing their early-decision essays, students who cry when they read their letter of denial. Compared to an athlete who did not take challenging classes, an athlete that stays up all night playing sports, an athlete that does not even receive a legitimate degree.
These athletes are essentially wasting space and education while attending these institutions. Due to their lack of time to participate in the classroom, these students only take around two classes per semester. Then at graduation they only receive an associates degree, meaning they need two more years of education elsewhere to complete their bachelors. Does a person in their early twenties want to begin at a new school, to take classes they have already had the chance to take?
The athlete suffers academically, but these institutions suffer in the sense that their perspective students do not want to take part in the unfairness. What student wants to get their hopes up by applying to an institution where they already know that an athlete’s desire to play ball appears to be valued more than their desire to