The Pros And Cons Of Student Athletes

When applying to University there are multiple steps which lead to many frustrations and stress. Everyone from the top student to the student who is forced to apply, deals with these frustrations. In my experience, I threw things, abused my computer, and my eyes may have watered from the frustrations of course. Not only is the process hard, filling in every form, obtaining letter of recommendation, but the four years that you spent trying to come up with the information you are providing was hard.
When a student like myself, works hard for four years trying to become the “dream applicant” it’s hard enough competing with the other students applying for admissions whose qualifications amount or exceed yours, but we are stuck competing with people who haven’t necessarily worked as hard as us and whose qualifications are significantly less than ours, those people are given the title of student athletes. The admissions of student athletes has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. In most cases, it is brought up when students who have a perfect high school resume are turned down and athletes’ who have a not so perfect high school resume are accepted. My argument is not one that bashes athletes for their abilities or one that argues against an

In the study the graduate student, Mary Willingham a learning specialist now found that some student athletes she had worked with and researched read at a middle school or lower reading level. Willingham explains that she encountered many athletes who faced many academic problems which she admits to helping them get around standards set by the NCAA. In the article written by Ganium, she reports that as CNN did extensive research they found that UNC-Chapel Hill wasn’t the only college guilty of admitting athletes whose academic abilities were less than college level twenty-one colleges to be