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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the link.  I understand your overall point that at certain schools, there seems to be too much of a focus on athletics.  However, that article is not entirely relevant to Williams though.

The article primarily talks about the Ivy League schools.  Well, all of the Ivies are in NCAA Division I.  Williams is NCAA D3.

Division I schools tend to have bigger budgets and in most cases, the athletic departments are self funded.  They keep the revenue they generate.  And DI schools (like the Ivies) expect their athletic department to make money.  Very few Division I schools use resources from the general budget to recruit athletes.  And I think the passage you cite fails to account for this very important point.  Athletic departments generate revenue.  Certain reserach programs bring in grant money for reserach and development. The journalism department?  Not so much.  Like it or not, the kids in the revenue producing programs will be more heavily recruited - whether those programs are academic or athletic.  It's a money thing at the DI level.

With respect to D3, my DD was recruited by a number of them.  The resources used to recruit my daughter?  Calls and occasional letters from the coach, a walking tour that every other prospective student got, lunch in the cafeteria when she visited (that other non-athlete prospects got) and an overnight stay in an athlete’s dorm room (where she slept on the floor).  Heck, she even paid for her own ticket to the games.  Trust me, D3 schools are not wining and dining these athletes – so I suspect that the resources spent on recruiting athletes do not take much away from the general recruitment effort.  And most top D3 schools will not recruit an athlete who could not get in otherwise.  For example, Carnegie Mellon and Dickinson both ask for GPA and test scores in the first letter to the recruit.  
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