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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have an athlete, but I am fine with athletes getting a leg up because that is a legitimate metric of effort, organizational skills, hard work, team work etc. It's legacy and race advantages that I have major issues with. [/quote]

Ok, but then by that standard, any kid who plays four years on a high school team and/or club team, should get extra consideration regardless their plans to play in college.[/quote]

It’s more impressive and meaningful if you are good at your sport and have good grades too. It really shows that you have grit, work ethic and smarts too. I hire at a bank and my favorite hires are grads from top colleges who were athletes or in the army. Over my 24 year career, they have been consistently the best employees. [/quote]

Ie my favorite hires are WASP candidates from top colleges.

You don’t even see your implicit racism.

I’m sure non athleties from top colleges would perform as well, unless your bank has a competitive squash team required to hit your numbers. [/quote]

You seem quite ignorant.

Someone who goes out of his way to hire from the Army is almost certainly hiring a far more diverse group than people who hire from top colleges only. [/quote]

Depends. Office class runs very white and Protestant, and I doubt you are taking from the enlisted which are diverse. Nice try though, waving the patriotic flag and all, but I grew up surrounded by military families so I know the real drill. [/quote]

If you grew up around military officers, you would know that they are very diverse, and have been for quite some time. 
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Oh please. Service academies are so white (80%) that the Supreme Court exempted them from the decision banning the use of race in admissions. The officer corps in the US armed forces is about 75% white. And let’s not discuss the gender gap.

It’s pretty consistent with athletes at “top” colleges who are also somewhere around 60-70% white.

In short, if you wanted to hire white men without saying you only wanted to hire white men you would be hard pressed to find better proxies than ex military officers and athletes from top colleges. [/quote]

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