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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m having a hard time believing that eliminating athletic recruitment will change things unless they really mean eliminating most athletics.

Even if they tell coaches they can’t recruit, if they are going to field a squash team or a fencing team as examples, then they will still look for kids with squash and fencing championships who are going to come from the top 1%.
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Without the recruiting preference, the demographic of squash and fencing team members would change.

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How?  They would still recruit kids who played squash and fenced and would give added weight to champions much the same they give added weight to a piano player that wins prestigious awards or a Math Olympiad kid.

The squash and fencing champs would all most likely be wealthy.[/quote]

There's lots of middle class fencers and squash players with great academics.  
They might not be as good without the world class coaching available to wealthier kids and they are more likely to be minorities.[/quote]

You're joking, right?  My guess is that there are no "middle class" fencers or squash players, period.  No one has access to these sports without their parents paying a lot of money for private lessons, coaching, court time, travel teams, uniforms, etc. etc.  There's no "AYSO" for fencing or squash.  A bunch of other sports are also just for the wealthy, such as ski-racing, sailing, equestrian, golf, mountain biking, etc.[/quote]

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