Are you saying that only rich kids play sports in college? Please, defend that. |
I think all the claims of racism are coming from one teenager ticked off about not getting into their first choice college. The anonymity of boards like this can be great for getting people to say what they really believe, but we can also fall prey to thinking a bunch of posts are coming from people who agree with one another when it's actually just one very prolific poster. |
Nobody is saying “only rich kids play sports in college,” but yeah, the vast majority college athletes across the spectrum of schools are rich white kids. |
People in the DC area, particularly lawyers, have a real tough time with averages. |
NCAA has 326,000 white student athletes in 2022. Hardly plausible that the vast majority are rich. Vast majority are probably upper middle class. |
The point of AA is to increase minority representation. How is it not working? |
What you really want is to stick it to black people. You’re just using Asians as a fig leaf to do it. Asians know what you really think of them. |
I think the point was that eventually you wouldn’t need a thumb in the scale. That has very clearly not materialized. |
Not to derail but there is no excuse these days for any parent to not realize the current college admission landscape. No matter the socioeconomic status, most everyone has a smart phone these days and sites just like this one, which if read enough does provide a background and source for information, is available for free. Shame on anyone these days who is out of touch of what is going on. |
+1 It’s takes a ton of money to get to that level and most sports require traveling and private coaching to get there. |
Well, it goes to the heart of what should be the point of AA. Should it be to help a minority graduating from Anacostia HS...or should it function as it currently does where the vast majority of African Americans at elite schools are coming from elite backgrounds. From a Harvard economist: "Seventy-one percent of Harvard’s Black and Hispanic students come from wealthy backgrounds. A tiny fraction attended underperforming public high schools. First- and second-generation African immigrants, despite constituting only about 10 percent of the U.S. Black population, make up about 41 percent of all Black students in the Ivy League, and Black immigrants are wealthier and better educated than many native-born Black Americans." |
DCUM definition of upper middle class is rich in reality. Lots of 10th graders would love to swim or play soccer at UVa, Amherst, JMU, etc but do not have the resources to train to do so. |
The problem is it’s hard to know who to trust. Everyone wants to sell you something- their book, their coaching, their program…and fear sells |
Go look at an Ivy League, ACC, SEC or Big East rowing, xc, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, swimming or golf roster and get back to me |
The "H" stands for historically, not "only". Howard, for example, has the largest number of Nepalese students of any school in the US |