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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1455516, member: 40"]
What I don't get is why the NCAA forces athletes to jump through more stringent hoops than non-athletes going through the normal admissions process.  I sat on two admissions committees -- one for undergrad, one for an MBA program -- at a highly competitive tier one research university that had TONS of international applicants.  Provided those kids could provide proof that they'd graduated, their international status was actually something that weighed in their favor.  TOEFL [test of english as a foreign language] scores were way more important than what HS courses they took, as were standardized test scores [SAT, ACT, GMAT].
 
The admissions committee didn't spend any amount of time, effort, or focus on trying to compare high school curriculae against one another, or worrying about if some class taught in a foreign country matched up with an arbitrary comparison here in the US.  If the foreign applicant had a high enough standardized test score, that was what we were looking for.
 
Diagne spent three years attending school in the US.  He has [ostensibly] a high enough standardized test score to qualify him on the NCAAs sliding scale.  In the case of a foreign applicant like Diagne, I really think that the NCAA shows poor judgement in discounting classwork taken overseas.
 
And for the record, I'm not anti-having minimum qualification standards.  Obviously, some threshold is needed to maximize the likelihood that these kids are college-ready.    But isn't that what standardized tests are for--to provide a benchmark of how capable you are of completing coursework at the collegiate level?
 
I honestly think that Diagne's situation is an example of the NCAA harming a prospective student athlete instead of being their advocate, based upon administriva BS.
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