Re: New Admissions Criteria

[Brad Holdheide]

I am NOT for raising academic standards across the board.  If OSU and UC raise standards who will be left for the lesser off individuals who want to pursue a higher degree to improve their quality of life.  I thought that's what state schools were for...to educate everyone, not just the elitists of the world.
 
Without OSU and UC the average joe who scores below a 22 on their ACT will be relegated to going to Sinclair University or Cuyahoga Community College.  Those are ok schools but don't offer the "college experience" you get from going to a school like UC.  Dorm life, fraternities, big time college sports, etc etc are all things I went to college for in addition to getting a degree.
 
In addition how can academic standards be raised across the board with no considerations taken into account for scholarship students with special skills.  I doubt the average student has to go through the daily rigors that a basketball player does with 3 hours of practice, weight lifting, studying game film, away games, etc.
 


> > > address@hidden 2/1/2006 11:17 AM >>>

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

_________________________________________________________________
Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! 
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/






-----------------------------------------------------

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain company proprietary and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.  The information contained in this document may also be controlled by the U.S. export control laws.  Unauthorized export or re-export is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this document.

-----------------------------------------------------
<<<<EC>>>>