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<blockquote data-quote="IEEEWreck" data-source="post: 196626" data-attributes="member: 617"><p>Well, here's how I see it. We're not going to convince any players who want a Literature PhD that we're the best. Those guys should be going to Northwestern or Cal Berkley and good for them. There's a larger pool, I think, of athlete scholars who have no idea what their goals are. They're scholars because they do well in math or science, or both. Or even English or History. I think that's about what you can see from the view at 17 for most people. Most people, like most electrons, follow the path of least resistance. They have ambition, but not crystal clear "I want to spend the rest of my life writing about international exchanges in leftist circles in the last half of the twentieth century" ambition. Business school fits most people like that (the other big paths being medicine, law, or engineering). Liberal arts just don't have a payoff without that kind of crystal clear certainty, and a clearheaded willingness to forego compensation in order to do what you love. That's relatively rare. And frankly if you're on the football team you don't really get the most time to enjoy reading Marlowe or researching New Right movements if you want to do that in undergrad because you like it, but ultimately want to work for Coca Cola because you want the money. Anyway, I think you can reasonably extrapolate from that 1 in 6 line to paint a picture that GT is a different kind of opportunity if you're like most students. </p><p></p><p>Plus, I think this is a place where some chest thumping is in order. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Vis a vis nothing in particular: GT has more engineers on its football team than Stanford. That's at least interesting to ponder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IEEEWreck, post: 196626, member: 617"] Well, here's how I see it. We're not going to convince any players who want a Literature PhD that we're the best. Those guys should be going to Northwestern or Cal Berkley and good for them. There's a larger pool, I think, of athlete scholars who have no idea what their goals are. They're scholars because they do well in math or science, or both. Or even English or History. I think that's about what you can see from the view at 17 for most people. Most people, like most electrons, follow the path of least resistance. They have ambition, but not crystal clear "I want to spend the rest of my life writing about international exchanges in leftist circles in the last half of the twentieth century" ambition. Business school fits most people like that (the other big paths being medicine, law, or engineering). Liberal arts just don't have a payoff without that kind of crystal clear certainty, and a clearheaded willingness to forego compensation in order to do what you love. That's relatively rare. And frankly if you're on the football team you don't really get the most time to enjoy reading Marlowe or researching New Right movements if you want to do that in undergrad because you like it, but ultimately want to work for Coca Cola because you want the money. Anyway, I think you can reasonably extrapolate from that 1 in 6 line to paint a picture that GT is a different kind of opportunity if you're like most students. Plus, I think this is a place where some chest thumping is in order. Vis a vis nothing in particular: GT has more engineers on its football team than Stanford. That's at least interesting to ponder. [/QUOTE]
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