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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t smart, high achievers beget smart, high achievers, on average? [/quote]

Yes. Legacy kids must have the stats to get in. I know many who were not strong enough students, and were not admitted. And some with outstanding stats but not admitted.

There's a good article about the real corruption being in the area of athletic recruits, for whom academic standards are substantially lowered by contrast:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/opinions/college-admissions-elite-sports-harvard-affirmative-action-macintosh/index.html[/quote]

Wow, recruited athletes get a 1000% bump, and with lowered academic standards to boot? That's not right.[/quote]
+1. Athletic recruiting has 10x the impact of legacy these days, yet legacy gets 10x the attention post-Supreme Court decision.[/quote]

Institutions should be *forced* to reveal the academic stats of all athletic recruits. Full transparency. Where is that lawsuit?[/quote]

It’s coming soon enough.[/quote]

It will be dismissed. It would be nothing like the recent SC case. Athletic recruiting is clearly based on merit. You can argue that many sports require money or that schools don't need so many sports (or sports at all) but you can't say athletic recruits are like legacies in terms of the boost since it wasn't something they just lucked into birth wise.[/quote]

I disagree.  I think that it will be viewed through the lens of a disparate impact analysis.[/quote]

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