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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there some advantage to sailing or Equestrian over cheaper, more mundane sports like cross country or swimming[/quote]

Yes. There is a much smaller pool of applicants who do these sports and the schools need to fill up those teams, so you have a huge leg up in admissions. [/quote]I think this answers the OP's question[/quote]
https://stanforddaily.com/2022/01/12/from-the-community-the-bias-of-legacy-and-athlete-admissions/
But not everyone agrees that a “back door” comes solely in the form of financial gifts from a family to a college, and many have pointed to other factors that can increase a student’s likelihood of admission and dubbed them “back doors,” too. One increasingly popular move seems to be the most consistent back door across the board: athlete admissions. At Harvard, recruited athletes with high academic scores on Harvard’s scale of rating applicants are admitted at a staggering rate of 83%, while non-athletes with the same academic rank are only accepted at a rate of 16% — not to mention the school’s 5% acceptance rate for the general public. Athletics even trump legacy in terms of admissions preference, with athletes receiving a 48% bump. And playing a sport at a collegiate level in high school can cost upward of $12,000 in equipment, traveling, and tournament fees. Wealthy students even have an advantage in recruitment practices, because, according to a recent study in the Harvard Educational Review, “due to their community and social networks, [they] are better at navigating this process.” A Washington Post study from 2019 found that 12% of Stanford’s undergraduate population is enrolled in a varsity sport. While not all of Stanford’s athletes are one-percenters, the money and time to play competitive sports in college gave many of them a significant admissions boost.[/quote]

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