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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sports are a hook like NO other.

Some sports parents seem to have a complex about this for some reason.   It's not that the kids are unqualified, it's that they have the boost from "maybe" to "yes".   When you are talking 5% admit rates this is obviously a huge help. [/quote]

It is a great hook. I think the problem arises when non-athlete parents think the athletes shouldn't have been admitted at all almost exclusively referencing comparative GPA and/or test scores.
I agree some sports (think sailing and fencing) should be treated more like orchestra by admissions since they hardly draw spectators, don't raise the school's profile in a meaningful way, and have a minimal ability to bring the campus community together. Others though (think football and basketball as the big ones but also hockey, soccer, lax, and baseball at many places) bring students, alumni, and locals together in a unique way. Schools would be crazy not to try to be competitive in at least those sports. Even in the Ivy League, look at the atmosphere and attendees (and fundraising ops) for the Harvard Yale football game or Princeton Penn basketball at the Palestra. I've never seen so much pride and gear wearing from my non-athlete Princeton friends, who mostly don't even follow college sports much, as during the runs their basketball teams had this year in the NCAA tournament. [/quote]

The problem is some sports parents insist recruited athletes don’t have lower stats.  On the whole, they do. Why pretend they don’t when the data are clear.

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The problem with your statement is the "on the whole" characterization. [/quote]

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