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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 369735" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>Some would, some wouldn't. In 2013, the latest year I have seen numbers for, the average SAT score for football players was 1062. That was below the average for general students of 1420. However, right around that time(I don't remember the exact year) GT had the highest average SAT score in FBS football. An exception isn't allowing entrance to an athlete, an exception is when the athlete does not make a minimum score that qualifies and they are listed in a limited admissions category. GT football was limited to a maximum of four(I believe) until a few years ago. When the football team was able to maintain a high APR and high graduation rate, the school lifted the limit. CPJ said that it wouldn't make too much of a difference in recruiting. The reason was the other thing about athletes at GT that CHE90 was referencing when you called it stupid. The athletes must perform academically. At GT if you can't read at a middle school level, there is no place to hide. There are not a lot of professors that will allow you to skate through. The professors at GT do <em>their</em> job which is to teach. They don't work for the GTAA, and they don't answer to the GTAA. In my opinion, that is the way it should be at every university. It's stupid to believe that athletes at GT just practice their sport and party while the rest of the student body is hard at work studying. Some schools do allow that. GT does not. The athletes work their butts off on the field and in the classroom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 369735, member: 2426"] Some would, some wouldn't. In 2013, the latest year I have seen numbers for, the average SAT score for football players was 1062. That was below the average for general students of 1420. However, right around that time(I don't remember the exact year) GT had the highest average SAT score in FBS football. An exception isn't allowing entrance to an athlete, an exception is when the athlete does not make a minimum score that qualifies and they are listed in a limited admissions category. GT football was limited to a maximum of four(I believe) until a few years ago. When the football team was able to maintain a high APR and high graduation rate, the school lifted the limit. CPJ said that it wouldn't make too much of a difference in recruiting. The reason was the other thing about athletes at GT that CHE90 was referencing when you called it stupid. The athletes must perform academically. At GT if you can't read at a middle school level, there is no place to hide. There are not a lot of professors that will allow you to skate through. The professors at GT do [I]their[/I] job which is to teach. They don't work for the GTAA, and they don't answer to the GTAA. In my opinion, that is the way it should be at every university. It's stupid to believe that athletes at GT just practice their sport and party while the rest of the student body is hard at work studying. Some schools do allow that. GT does not. The athletes work their butts off on the field and in the classroom. [/QUOTE]
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