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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at rosters from basically all nescac schools, nearly all students went to private school.  College admission isn’t equal or equitable.  I don’t know what to even say.   What will opening this secret and releasing the Amherst data do?  Suddenly recruit lower class or impoverished students to suddenly play soccer really well and go to Amherst?  It isn’t equitable.  [/quote]

I don't know what to say to someone who complains that sports isn't "equal or equitable". WTF? Obviously you never played sports and never had a kid who played sports. All athletes are not equal. Some are better than others. If you are good enough to make the team, then you are by definition [b]not [/b]equal to - you are [i]better than[/i] - all the other kids who tried out for the team.

Soccer is a particularly poor example of a "privileged" sport. It is absolutely egalitarian. Dirty urchins in a favela can play as long as they have a ball and an open dusty lot. If they are not getting into Amherst it's not because they don't play soccer well, it's because they don't [i]also [/i]have the academic chops that Amherst requires athletes to have before recruiting them.[/quote]

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