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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are talking about all sport like lacrosse or crew or field hockey, these recruits statistically will presumptively be successful in their chosen careers.[/quote]

I’m not but what does this have to do with anything?  [/quote]

NP here. Because the odds are those athletes who do “well” in their careers = make a very high income, and thus are more likely to in return as alums give more money over a longer period of time back to their university.  The schools are playing the long game here. By investing in their lacrosse programs, the schools are betting on those types of players, from certain family backgrounds, to go into high income careers after school and the school can cultivate them into high level school spirit and loyalty and hope they become boosters.

Know any college lax bros who are know investment bankers?  Hedge fund managers?  Developers?  Entrepreneurs?  [/quote]

It’s a completely unfair statement and here is why: they don’t admit the kids with those lower stats (or exclude those with higher ones) - instead opting for the lower stats athlete.  It’s then impossible to gather any data on how those kids would have fared had they been accepted or how they fared elsewhere.  [/quote]

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