[Farm93]

[quote author=fullmetal link=topic=12293.msg121685#msg121685 date=1435793818]

When you’re weighing the assets of what a youngster can do for your program, there’s no question (being Diddy’s son) had something to do with it for me.

Great recruiting gimmick, great potential future donor to the program, great press when the media's looking for something interesting about your team...

Did this enter into Ms. Clinton's admission?  Just wondering, not casting aspersions.  Someone said somewhere on this forum they hoped the Obama girl chose Stanford.  Why?
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Students should bring experiences and unique perspectives to a campus.  Not hard to imagine that a child of a current, or former, President of the USA would have tons to offer in discussions about political science, history, world events, etc. etc.  Realistically that is probably enough as long as the grades are not disgraceful.


Generally the children of Presidents are going to the very best schools and have all kinds of help to make sure their academic work is solid.  So it is unlikely their grades are off the mark anyway.


Stanford doesn't need the money in the way other schools might, still no doubt that an offspring of a President is going to bring a bounty of wealthy potential donors into a school's circle.


So that is why a school probably would accept a President's child.  Given that a President's child can go to almost any school in the USA, it says quite a lot for the child to pick your school.


A football program taking a celebrity child is not quite so clearly an automatic.  However, football programs now spend millions putting XBox consoles, TVs and other items in and around football facilities to lure impressionable athletes that dream of celebrity and wealth.  I have got to think many coaches would gamble a scholarship on a somewhat marginal athlete of a megastar if they thought that megastar could bring in a few 4 or 5 star kids along the way.  Imagine if Mayweather had a HS age kid worthy of college recruiting, for example.  I suspect quite a number of impressionable recruits would seriously consider that program if they knew Mayweather was on campus most of the time.  A coach would need to factor in Mayweather's legal problems and the questionable circle of friends, but I bet a few would take the risk to get that recruiting tool for a few years.

[Farm93]

[quote author=fullmetal link=topic=12293.msg121685#msg121685 date=1435793818]

When you’re weighing the assets of what a youngster can do for your program, there’s no question (being Diddy’s son) had something to do with it for me.

Great recruiting gimmick, great potential future donor to the program, great press when the media's looking for something interesting about your team...

Did this enter into Ms. Clinton's admission?  Just wondering, not casting aspersions.  Someone said somewhere on this forum they hoped the Obama girl chose Stanford.  Why?
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Students should bring experiences and unique perspectives to a campus.  Not hard to imagine that a child of a current, or former, President of the USA would have tons to offer in discussions about political science, history, world events, etc. etc.  Realistically that is probably enough as long as the grades are not disgraceful.


Generally the children of Presidents are going to the very best schools and have all kinds of help to make sure their academic work is solid.  So it is unlikely their grades are off the mark anyway.


Stanford doesn't need the money in the way other schools might, still no doubt that an offspring of a President is going to bring a bounty of wealthy potential donors into a school's circle.


So that is why a school probably would accept a President's child.  Given that a President's child can go to almost any school in the USA, it says quite a lot for the child to pick your school.


A football program taking a celebrity child is not quite so clearly an automatic.  However, football programs now spend millions putting XBox consoles, TVs and other items in and around football facilities to lure impressionable athletes that dream of celebrity and wealth.  I have got to think many coaches would gamble a scholarship on a somewhat marginal athlete of a megastar if they thought that megastar could bring in a few 4 or 5 star kids along the way.  Imagine if Mayweather had a HS age kid worthy of college recruiting, for example.  I suspect quite a number of impressionable recruits would seriously consider that program if they knew Mayweather was on campus most of the time.  A coach would need to factor in Mayweather's legal problems and the questionable circle of friends, but I bet a few would take the risk to get that recruiting tool for a few years.