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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 407381"><p>I come down on your side as opposed to Silas. I chose Georgia Tech because of its academic reputation. After all, the purpose of most people going to college is to get a degree that you can make a lucrative satisfying career from.</p><p></p><p>Our brand at Georgia Tech is elite academics. Its the reputation of our hard working, persistent, bright, innovative graduates. If we lose that, we lose everything. I never want to sacrifice that to win some sports game somewhere. I want to win every sports game. But I don't want to win any by cutting corners.</p><p></p><p>There are no doubt kids who want to go pro in sports and only see college as a means to that end. But kids at age 18 are also several years from having a fully developed brain. Many kids don't know what they want to do with life, what they want to major in, and so on. It is incumbent upon us to help all Georgia Tech students (athletes or not) get that degree and reach their full potential. There are athletes and non-athletes who throw that away out of laziness or any number of other reasons. And that's a shame. But I don't think you ever arrive at a number like a 31% graduation rate without either totally not giving a crap about the humanity side of a person or bringing kids into school that have no business being in college...or both. I hope we never go there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 407381"] I come down on your side as opposed to Silas. I chose Georgia Tech because of its academic reputation. After all, the purpose of most people going to college is to get a degree that you can make a lucrative satisfying career from. Our brand at Georgia Tech is elite academics. Its the reputation of our hard working, persistent, bright, innovative graduates. If we lose that, we lose everything. I never want to sacrifice that to win some sports game somewhere. I want to win every sports game. But I don't want to win any by cutting corners. There are no doubt kids who want to go pro in sports and only see college as a means to that end. But kids at age 18 are also several years from having a fully developed brain. Many kids don't know what they want to do with life, what they want to major in, and so on. It is incumbent upon us to help all Georgia Tech students (athletes or not) get that degree and reach their full potential. There are athletes and non-athletes who throw that away out of laziness or any number of other reasons. And that's a shame. But I don't think you ever arrive at a number like a 31% graduation rate without either totally not giving a crap about the humanity side of a person or bringing kids into school that have no business being in college...or both. I hope we never go there. [/QUOTE]
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