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It makes a bit more sense in college when you actually get 0.0 - 4.0 credits for the class based on your grade, and those are the ones they add up for degree audits. I think my physics degree needed something like 170 credits over the whole time there (a bit more than 14 per term), among other requirements as to what classes you got them from.
Wrong. You still have to take classes and do decent at them. If your
grades are too low they'll kick you off the team no matter how good you
are. This applies to high school too.
Depends. My high school bent over backwards to come up with "extenuating circumstances" for its football players. Keep in mind this is a town where the coach of a mediocre team holds more political clout than the mayor.
Regarding how easy it is to pass classes, pretty much every class I took that wasn't upper-division or elective seemed to be doing everything in its power to flush the slackers through. Most irritatingly, I and two others had 212% in sophomore biology class, and the average was something like 30%.
The reasons why are one of the great mysteries of the world, but for some reason Americans actually give a shit about college sports.
I think the importance that American Universities tend to place on sports makes a bit more sense when you consider that in pro basketball and football (and possibly some other sports like lacrosse), college sports are more or less minor leagues for the NBA and NFL respectively. There is some history as to why that is the case, but I am not familiar enough with it to really say much there.
However, given the facts that the NBA actually no longer accepts American players right out of high school and that NFL teams are the same way, I think it makes a bit more sense why college sports are considered so important in the U.S. They offer a place to see would-be pros play.
Since a select few who play in college go on to make millions in pro leagues, I can kind of understand why good athletes would focus more on sports than education in hopes that they can be one of the few who makes it big as pro athlete. I feel like you should always have a backup plan though and having a degree is not a bad one in my opinion.
whole education thing. My parents both went to the University of
Alabama; they both say it was absolutely useless as a school.
Add pretty much any 100-level class ever to that, and about half the 200-level ones. College was basically a waste of money for the first year and a half.