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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This info is pretty fascinating if you look at the breakdown of test scores relative to legacy and athletic recruits. (And we all know that athletic recruits at Princeton mostly = privileged white people doing sports like crew, lacrosse, etc.):

https://projects.dailyprincetonian.com/frosh-survey-2028/academics.html

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And yet parents of athletes always seem to maintain on this site that they are just as qualified, would have been admitted anyhow etc. Delusional.[/quote]

Based on the data, athletic preferences are the ONLY preference that exceed racial preferences at any point.  [/quote]

This i a better read of teh data.

"Based on the data athletics is the hardest university priority to fill due to the requirement for both intellectual and athletic excellence. These exceptional students are truly unicorns!"[/quote]

The academic gap is larger for record athletes than for under represented minorities.  They are the only preference group that gets more of a preference than underrepresented minorities.

I'm not saying it's an unearned preference.  They work their ass off.  But something like 15% of ivy+ are recruited athletes.  They are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly wealthy and incredibly important to the school.  I don't begrudge the athletic preference but it is a significant non academic preference.  [/quote]

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