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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Unfortunately, Bowen's books suggest that this overemphasis on athletics is not limited to one or two schools -- it's pervasive throughout the Ivy League and the top SLACs. Here's an editorial that he wrote that appeared in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/22/opinion/playing-...playing+their+way+in%22&st=nyt  [/quote]

Does begin in College.  Take a look at white collar suburbia in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. and mid-Atlantic, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, LA and San Francisco.  Club sports (e.g., lacrosse, soccer, basketball, baseball, rowing, squash, swimming .... la, la de da)

St Albans, Landon, Georgetown Prep, Deerfield, Saint Paul's, PEA, Andover, Milton, Lawrenceville, Peddie, Harvard Westlake.  It seems athletic testosterone prowess enhances admission prospects for these  9th and 10th graders at these traditional feeder schools to Ivy and SLACs.  Who will play golf, squash, crew, rugby, sailing, lacrosse, water polo, swimming at Ivy and SLACs schools if not for these elite young athletes?
 
 
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