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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, if people really want major college sports to operate like the way college club sports work, where you select a student body sports blind and the students self-organize into teams, you could have student bodies that seem to match the major sports teams in terms of admissions.

Since that is not what America wants, it is not what America gets.

So PLEASE think of D1 stadium sports alumni the same way some people think of affirmative action admits, except worse. They didn't earn the degree. They gave the kids bread and circuses and were supported far enough to not fail out. Their degrees should have asterisks and all that.[/quote]

That is absolute nonsense for the vast majority of schools argued over here on DCUM with the large publics and a few Privates (Duke, Vandy, Rice, Northwestern, Stanford) being exceptions.

The Ivies and Patriot League use the Academic Index and even if the examples in the tik tok were true (I doubt that they are) starting with the incoming class of 2028 there aren't any kids like that incoming because for sports the schools are requiring testing once again and it has caused real impacts.

Most of the athletes at Ivy schools are well over the academic bar for admission. We hear people crying and giving 'examples'  as if they are the norm when they aren't. Things are even harder for athletes at the elite D3 schools where there is little to no leeway for the vast majority of athletes.[/quote] Ivies usually keep some top stats benchwarmers to boost the average, allowing the department to balance out the stats of the actual playing team

The minimum AI for anyone to enter the ivy league as an athlete is 171 - that can be obtained with a 3.0 GA and 1110 SAT, for example. Many of the Yale athletes in the video could have attended even with submitted SAT scores, if they were a strong enough athlete.

The objective fact is that athletes recieve preferential treatment in admissions relative to other non-academic ECs like art or music.[/quote]

The minimum for Yale would be well over 171. It varies depending on the a erase stats at the school.[/quote]

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