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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“College athlete” is a broad term. For D2, many of the schools are weak academically & athletically, with small teams and student bodies. MANY D3 colleges which are generally small liberal arts colleges, openly use sports as a way to keep their doors open nowadays. Their selling point for kids is the opportunity to keep playing for another four years, athletic or academic ability be damned. They use “sports recruiting” as a way to bring in warm bodies so the school can have enough students to keep its doors open. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to NESCAC schools, but absolutely applies to one’s below T40 ish in the LAC rankings. [/quote]

Who cares? Athletes make up under 10% of all college students. The only people complaining are the ones in the bottom 10% of the class. If they did away with all the college athletes you are still not getting in. [/quote]

32% at Amherst, with nearly all of them being rich white kids.[/quote]

Which the school needs to subsidize everyone else.[/quote]

Amherst has a $3.75 billion endowment, $1.9 million per student. They would be fine if every student was on financial aid [/quote]

They eliminated legacy admissions, so they seem to be doing fine.[/quote]

“Eliminated.”

The coaches in particular don’t seem to have gotten the memo. [/quote]

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