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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don’t like the educated intellectual elites, so they are trying to break down the whole system of higher education. This is just part of that. [/quote]
Whatever the reason, you have to agree that legacy has to go. Get rid of ED next. Have a majority, democratic and republican (not politicians, but certainly voters) on both fronts.[/quote]

If you are getting rid of ED, then schools also need to get rid of preferences for athletes and their alternative admissions path[/quote]

Disagree about the Athletes - coordination is valuable to society and tells a lot about your brain - valuing a combination of smarts and athleticism is the best for society,  and people realized this centuries ago.[/quote]

Parents of athletes and athletes themselves defend the preferences that athletes get. Almost no one else does. [/quote]

It is tough for people to step back and accept that there are kids who truly excel down both paths. Accepting that there are kids who do as well academically with far less effort because they are devoting 30 hours a week to perfecting an alternate craft totally shatters their worldview regarding actual merit.[/quote]

Sure there are some who do, but take Div 1 football and basketball.  At most schools, fact remains the "student athletes" are well below the average student at the school.  [b]It's only the Stanford/Northwestern's of the world where that isn't the case. [/b] [/quote]

The fundamental problem that you are pointing too is major Power 4 sports. Those sports are an unrealistic microcosm of College athletics but because it is what people see on TV it is what they equate as college athletics. That is a world of "pre-professional" training for a few sports and not at all representative of Ivy League, Patriot League, NESCAC, UAA, etc. athletes and recruiting standards. But that view does make recruited athletes easy targets for people desperate to get into those schools.[/quote]

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