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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahh...it must be autumn.

The leaves are turning, kids are starting to apply to college, and their parents are on DCUM complaining about how they are so disadvataged compared to the athletes, the legacies and the URM's.

All I will say is that "qualified" takes on many forms.  I think the admissions people understand how to populate their schools.  [/quote]

That will be a lot more persuasive when top basketball programs start affirmatively recruiting shrimpy intellectual kids who can't jump in order to provide beneficial "diversity" on their basketball teams!  It is funny how diversity arguments apply to the academics but not to sports teams. [/quote]

And if you think that the shrimpy intellectual kid is competing for a spot at that university against that basketball player - then you do not have a clue as to how it works. Maybe you should have pointed out all the international students in the applied science and engineering programs.  That may have made more sense to your argument - but I doubt it![/quote]

At a big D1 school the atletes are such a small percentage of students=especially basketball.   [/quote]

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