Timeline for Are athletes' college degrees discounted by employers and graduate school admissions?
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| Jun 13, 2019 at 20:00 | comment | added | Jon Custer | As far as (US-style) football players, Matthew Miller (Cornell professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) might be instructive: mae.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/matthew-peter-miller. Not just college player, but 6 years professional as well. | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 19:42 | comment | added | user23715 | I can tell you that the football (American) players at my 4-year university cheated like fiends and without consequences in the 101-type classes. -- I'll say this though, they understood teamwork and cheated as a team in class during exams. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 16:04 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | @Johnny A cs student of mine who went on to a very successful career in industry noted on a blog he wrote about recruiting that he was once selected from a number of appropriate candidates the one who'd been an olympic rower, thinking (correctly) that the dedication required for that would carry over into work. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 13:43 | comment | added | Jon Custer | @Johnny - for entry level technical positions (fresh out of school hires), yes I pay attention to athletics. As I noted above, athletes still need to meet the requirements, but given two applicants with similar major and GPA I will take the athlete any day. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 7:46 | comment | added | hojusaram | John Urschel who played for the Baltimore Ravens quit and joined the math PhD program at MIT | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:24 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Buffy Emma Pooley was world cycling time-trial champion in 2010 while studying for a PhD in engineering at ETH Zurich. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:07 | comment | added | Nat | This answer reminds me of an Engineering professor who, near retirement age, still boasted of his college American-football career decades earlier, including with trophies in his office. It's my impression that he found it to promote his career standing despite having nothing to do with anything related to his research. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Some people do, some people don't. You can definitely easily find lots of people who say that they do consider it or that other people should, here's one notable example. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | Johnny | I also think you're overestimating the value of academics and underrating the value of athletics to employers. In 20+ years of hiring, I have never once noticed an applicants athletic skills nor used such skills to make a hiring decision and as far as I know, known of my colleagues have been doing so either. But I've been hiring for technical positions, do other fields pay attention to athletics? | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 14:21 | comment | added | Buffy | I'll note that there are world class athletes in some educational institutions in just club sports. They get no funding and are treated like any other student. My old judo coach and fellow student studied engineering as well as competing internationally at a very high level. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:26 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Fully agree. Some of us folks here were college athletes and know the amount of dedication required to balance sports and academics, as well as the time management skills learned while doing so. I'm quite happy to find sports on people's CVs. Sure, they need to be competitive on the core things, but being a collegiate athlete is a differentiating factor. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 11:24 | history | edited | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 9:54 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |