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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lax bro network is real. It is great where your brothers went too! I know guys who played at Harvard and Swarthmore and they all do very well and are drawn into high paying industries (mostly finance) in large numbers.
They also end up in MBA programs at places like HBS and in NYC at Columbia and NYU so OP's question is still tough to answer. They get good jobs for a few years and go to good grad schools.
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The job choices and earnings of athletes is another reason I think top colleges are unlikely to roll back preferences there too much. There is certainly the argument they promote community on campus. What is a bigger campus event than the football games between Harvard and Yale or Amherst and Williams? But there is also the fact that colleges are happy to have athletes go into big money industries and give back. MIT has benefitted a ton from a couple of basketball players with the Koch last name. Stanford has the name of a basketball player all over their campus too (Arrillaga). Giving rates may not change, as has been the case with schools dropping legacy admissions, but I think schools worry about amounts. Surprisingly, Mike Bloomberg, who was all for getting rid of legacy preference, has been fine with Hopkins heavily recruiting athletes to become a national power in D1 and D3 sports. He may see the merit in the hard work and community building in the athletic department though. I've never heard him comment on it one way or the other.[/quote]

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