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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This info is pretty fascinating if you look at the breakdown of test scores relative to legacy and athletic recruits. (And we all know that athletic recruits at Princeton mostly = privileged white people doing sports like crew, lacrosse, etc.):

https://projects.dailyprincetonian.com/frosh-survey-2028/academics.html

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And yet parents of athletes always seem to maintain on this site that they are just as qualified, would have been admitted anyhow etc. Delusional.[/quote]

Recruited athlete college application is its own thing.  For the D1 schools the students literally sign their contracts on Nov 1st, long before they could even possibly have been compared with non athlete applicants.  Even for Princeton and the other Ivies, the colleges send them "likely letters" before applications are due, then the students submit EA/REA/ED whichever early process the school has and have an over 90% admit rate.  The athlete's themselves are so confident that they will be accepted many of them post in advance on social media during the summer of their senior year . . . [/quote]

In order to make the process seem somewhat legit (which is a joke), I have seen Ivy League athletes post that they "have committed to go through the admissions process at" the school.

The legacy data is exactly what I expected. For all of the drama about the rich legacy kids who are underqualified and only got in because mom/dad gave a big gift, the vast majority are highly qualified. Smart people have smart kids. Smart people prioritize education for their kids. Smart people tell their kids that if they want to grow up to be like mom and dad, they have to study really, really hard like mom and dad did. As has been repeated ad nauseum, these schools get tons of super qualified applicants. So legacy might be a tie breaker among highly qualified kids. That's about it.

And to those who say that most recruited athletes are rich white kids, here is a picture of the 2024 Princeton football team. I see a lot of minority athletes there. The basketball team is probably half minority. So yes, there are more rich white kids in yachting or golf, but as a whole, the athletics department likely mirrors the demographics of the whole university.

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/football/roster[/quote]

And you are saying these "minorities" are not smart enough to be students at Princeton?

What racist garbage you are.

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I can’t win with you ignorant, angry losers. I am saying that whoever says that all athletes are rich where yachters are ignoring the huge number of minority football players. People are choosing data to fit their desired conclusions.

I have several doctors who are former minority Ivy League athletes. Would I trust my health with someone who I think is an idiot?

This thread is further proof of dumb posters talking past each other who don’t know how to interpret data.[/quote]

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