一位在Swarthmore 五年, 在Stanford University15年，又在Princeton University做了15年的Dean of Admission（就翻译成招生办主任吧）谈他在招收运动员事考虑的几点。供参考。

• When I was dean of admission, I always asked myself two questions when considering an application from a student-athlete.  First, if I admitted this student and he/she suffered an injury that meant dropping the sport, would he/she still be happy to be at this university; and, second, would the university still be happy he/she was here?  I had to feel confident the answer to both questions would be "yes."  So, my advice to student-athletes is to ask themselves those same two questions when considering which colleges to apply to.

• When I spoke with prospective applicants who were student-athletes, I always advised them to meet the coaches and the members of the team to make sure they’d be comfortable with them since they’d be spending a significant amount of time with them in college.

• The amount of time a student-athlete will spend on practices and games varies from one college or university to another, most often depending on whether the college is Division I, II, or III, and also depending on whether the student is on an athletic scholarship or not.  Therefore, the student needs to think ahead of time about how much of a commitment to athletics they will feel comfortable making in college and about what sort of balance between academic obligations and athletic obligations they feel confident they will be able to handle successfully.  For instance, one All-American swimmer I know once explained to me why she passed up an athletic scholarship at one excellent university in favor of another excellent university that didn’t offer athletic scholarships: she said that, while she wanted to swim in college, she didn’t want the pressure of feeling that she had to swim.  I’ve admitted and come to know both scholarship athletes and non-scholarship athletes who were successful and happy with the choices they made.

• At freshman orientation each year, I encouraged all incoming students not to categorize or stereotype themselves, whether it be as student-athletes, minority students, foreign students, student-musicians, nerds, or whatever, but to think of themselves as individuals, and to take advantage of as many resources available to them (including their classmates) at their respective colleges as possible.