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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by HDThoreaun on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:42PM (#36793870)
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.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by schnitzelstoat on Thursday July 20, 2023 @02:22AM (#36797413)
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.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by HDThoreaun on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:49AM (#36801303)
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.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by Larrikin on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:59AM (#36801477)
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.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by lostlogin on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:11PM (#36802666)
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-...

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