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It seems to cover football and basketball too. A bit different than laxers from prep schools - don't you think?

[quote=Anonymous]So actually they don't compare kids in Ivy vs. non-Ivy. They compare athletes at Ivy's vs. non-athletes and show that those with higher SAT's perform better in the classroom. Do they measure if they perform better out of the classroom. Do they compare athletes to students who have a full time job? That would seem to have more value. Sure if I have less responsibilities and more time to study, I perform better. That is the results of their analysis?

Do they break it down by sport?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a group of Ivy League and non-Ivy League athletes shared their SAT scores, high school grades, calls rank, etc. and then years later shared their career or post college earnings with the researcher?

It strikes me that no everyone would be willing to share such information.  So the sample consists only of those willing to reveal sensitive personal information - in my experience such people are few and far between (do you know what your best friend has earned over the course of her career?) and those who are willing to share the information skew toward the successful in the group.  I'd also be wary of a study based on the assumption that SAT scores etc. make two people alike.

But hey if a PRINCETON academic says it is true it must be true.[/quote]

Found it!
Reclaiming the Game
College Sports and Educational Values

William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin
In collaboration with James L. Shulman, Colin G. Campbell, Susanne C. Pichler, & Martin A. Kurzweil

In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships.

Thanks to an expansion of the College and Beyond database that resulted in the highly influential studies The Shape of the River and The Game of Life, the authors are able to analyze in great detail the backgrounds, academic qualifications, and college outcomes of athletes and their classmates at thirty-three academically selective colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships. They show that [b]recruited athletes at these schools are as much as four times more likely to gain admission than are other applicants with similar academic credentials.[/b] The data also demonstrate that the typical recruit is substantially [b]more likely to end up in the bottom third of the college class than is either the typical walk-on or the student who does not play college sports. Even more troubling is the dramatic evidence that recruited athletes "underperform:" [/b]they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades.[/quote][/quote][/quote]

Not based on the ones I have seen go off to these schools based on "untimed SATs" because of a flaky LD diagnosis.

The lacrosse teams eat at the same Academic Index trough as the football and basketball teams.

Still grasping for straws, eh.[/quote]

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