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[quote=Anonymous]Yawn. Let’s looks at UVA 750 student athletes out of 11,786 undergrads and another 7,000 grad students. That’s just about 4% student athletes. Remember they put 5,000 kids on the wait list. If your kid got reject it is not because of the student athlete.

If they did away with athletic that would be 188 spots. So they would take 188 off the wait list. That’s the last 4% your kid is competing with(if you made the wait list).

UVA has a Legacy admissions preference at roughly 30% per class. Yes they let a legacy kids in with lower scores vs non legacy kid.

Harvard competes in every sport and has a relative small student population. I think they are at 10% student athletes.  Their legacy program was about 33%. They have another category of big donors/ important people’s kids. Some of those kids need special tutoring before attending.

You can do this for each and every college and university. Legacy is a bigger problem vs athletes. No one talks about it because those students do not have a high profile and are mostly white. [/quote]

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