Re: New Admissions Criteria

[Bearcat Tom]

I'm all for raising the academic standards at UC.  Honestly, I have thought 
for a long time they were too low for the caliber of school.  I seriously 
doubt they will apply the same requirements to student athletes.  ND, 
Stanford, Duke all treat applications differently for scholarship athletes.

I'm all for getting the best student & best athlete but sometimes those 2 
are mutually exclusive.  It will be a balancing act for sure.  e.g.  Captain 
of basketball team equates to a sign of leadership vs. just looking at a 20 
ACT.

Tom


> From: Stephen Wuebker <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] New Admissions Criteria
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:32:56 -0500
>
> The valedictorian of my HS class was 6'4", had a 4.0 GPA and 31 ACT.  I
> believe he was recruited for MIT's track team (he had the school record
> in the high jump) and ended playing some basketball for them too.  He
> played pretty good from what I remember. (Ivy League is no match for Big
> East, but still)
>
> There are guys out there, just most of them don't want to play sports in
> college, or don't want or need to go to UC for a good degree. (Sorry, a
> mechanical engineering degree from MIT is way better than the same from UC)
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> > In a message dated 1/31/2006 3:33:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > address@hidden writes:
> >
> >     a potential target in
> >     5 years being:
> >
> >     Top 10% of high school class OR
> >
> >     ACT >= 24 OR
> >
> >     Top 50% of high school class AND ACT >= 22 AND HSGPA>= 2.7
> >
> > Well I know this isn't ever going to happen at UC but just putting it
> > down is a joke. Is there people at UC that are actually going along with
> > this? From the basketball side of it how many players would qualify?
> > That little 5 foot 2 guy with a book stuck up his butt that's who. Don

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