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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the athletes from top schools continue to have great results after graduation and help create a campus community that the school, students, and alumni value, then why would the schools seriously consider major change at this point? I agree that sports like squash, crew, and sailing that are hardly attended by non family members and are truly elitist should be things schools consider getting rid of but everyone needs to understand that the Ivy League, power D1 schools like Stanford, NW, and Duke and top D3s like MIT, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Hopkins, and Chicago have no intention of being anything like Oxford or Cambridge in viewing athletics just like any other school extracurricular activity. They also don't have a legal need to nor do I foresee one based on the recent SC decision. [/quote]
Why? Because athletes are overwhelmingly white. And we just had a Supreme Court decision about affirmative action. Amherst has more athletes than the entire University of Alabama. Get it?[/quote]

Getting rid of athletics won’t bring in any more URMs.[/quote]
Yes it would, by definition.

1) You must not be aware of the URM proportion of athletes at top schools. And 2) you must not be aware of how schools are already thinking about replacing URM slots with low-income and Questbridge slots (and it’s moderate correlation with URMs).

Thus, if there are 100% non-athlete slots, that means more low-income URMs. If athletic recruiting was cut in half at, say, Williams (so there is “only” 20%), there would be 80% non-athlete slots for those URMs. That’s still way more than the existing 60% non-athlete slots (because of its ridiculous 40% athletes). Again, by definition it means more URMs…

That’s enough math spoon feeding for the day: open up wide, and swallow.

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