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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/12/varsity-athletes-admissions-enrollment-top-colleges/?utm_term=.282712c7fa13

The amazing stats that jumped out to me are that 23% of Caltech and 15% of MIT slots are reserved for recruited athletes! So much for their vaunted "pure" race-neutral meritocracy. [/quote]

Thus is foolish.

1. [b]Caltech and MIT have some of highest suicide rates in the country. In large part that’s because they could admit a class of entirely high school valedictorians, HALF of whom would then be BELOW AVERAGE.  A good number of those kids then get depressed.  Harvard’s percent of reserved seats, between legacies, rich-people donations, athletes, and unique-star kids (top musicians, etc) is about FIFTY percent.  By design.[/b]

2. The group that gets the biggest help getting into schools like this is rich kids.  Jared Kushner’s dad straight bought a spot at Harvard for his mediocre son.  (Now we’re all paying the price.  But that’s another story.)

3. Do you also complain about affirmative action for conservatives, in areas like law, where holding conservative views lets mediocrities get ahead because rich conservative donors fund anyone willing to shill for the donors?  Conservative affirmative action is widespread- it happens at GMU Econ, Hillsdale, Liberty, etc, and in journalism (eg. Tomi Lahren, Ben Shapiro.)[/quote]

This is a very important point. Schools can't get rid of athletes/musicians/dancers because of the reason stated above. [/quote]

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