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Reply to "Stanford cutting 11 sports"

My older son went to an Ivy, a STEM major.  When he was in high-school, he took one semester of an intro-level science class at our local state university.  When he got to college, he took the second semester of it.  Then he told us he was re-taking the first semester there.  When we pointed out he had already taken it, he said that the Ivy intro course was taught at a much higher level, and he didn't think he would be ready for the upper-level classes in that subject unless he took it again there. Professors assign work that they think their students will be able to do; this also applies to History.  More selective schools will have more sophisticated assignments, longer papers, more reading (and more complex reading), more research expected, etc.  Then there is also the fact that students learn from, and study with, each other.  It makes a big difference when doing group projects.

The comparison with baseball teams at different levels is entirely right.  Can you be recruited to a D1 college if you play for a local travel team?  Probably, if you have a 92 mph fastball.  They still might want to see how you do against high-level competition.

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