Spending Time and Money on Sports

Mar 13, 2015 | Poway

Sure, sports are fun and healthy - I played evey sport I could while at school and college, but...

So many parents push their children into sports in the hope of getting college scholarships but did you know that they have 9x better chance of getting scholarships through academic achievement than through sports excellence (Hint: they nearly always need good math scores to get those academic scholarships)

www.mathnasium.com/poway

Don't believe me? Here's an article on the subject from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0