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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article was anti recruiting athletes. As an experiment Amherst should just forgo recruiting athletes and fill all of their varsity sports with walk-ons. I suspect that they would lose very game, Donations would plummet, and school spirit would die. [/quote]
This would mean that elite academic applicants would start applying ED again. They don’t now because ED is a disadvantage (majority accepted ED are athletes); they apply to lower Ivies, the Chicagos and Vandys of the world - and they get in. By the time RD comes around, they are gone. [b]You used to find geniuses at Amherst and Williams; those days are gone.[/b][/quote]

There are plenty of genius students at Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Williams, etc. It's actually easier now than in the past. 20 years ago the NESCAC schools had more athletic recruits than they do now and there was no uniform system for standards. You letting your feelings about athletics cloud your judgement.

Recruiting classes are also more diverse than in the past though this is still a sometimes fair criticism.[/quote]

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