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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry, what school is 50% QB? [/quote] QB is not the only program and, anyhow, I think it is being used here as a catch-all, proxy category to include Pell recipients and any first gen. Especially at SLACs like Swarthmore, that category is 1/3 (even more in ED, so it could indeed approach 50%). Then you have 25%-40% recruited athletes in the ED round on top of that… Don’t be an unhooked middle class kid. Might as well instead go to a mid-size or large top 15-30 uni, where admission chances are way better and the real academic talent is going anyhow. More and more of the top unhooked students are eschewing SLACs each year. This may not be noticeable to the outside world yet, but in another 20 years, the top 1/4 at SLACs will be the athletes (who now occupy the middle 50%). The now top 1/4? Gone forever.[/quote]
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