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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]athletic thumb on the scale is such a big scam.

can't believe after affirmative action ruling schools kept this unfair hook for non-money making sports like squash, crew and x-country running.

how does the rest of the school benefit from having those athletes there taking up space when there are more deserving applicants who have more to offer?[/quote]

Agree 100%. Don’t love these small schools where 1/3 of the kids are recruited athletes. Makes the “only the brightest students come here” seem like total bullshit. [/quote]

All of the coaches need to win to keep their jobs, even at the smallest, most academic schools. So they are increasingly pushing for recruiting power. I agree that it has become ridiculous. Back in our generation (the 90s) it didn't seem nearly this extreme. Schools still had plenty of athletes but many of them just kind of showed up. At a NESCAC school with 2,000 kids, so 1,000 are male, the helmet sports (baseball, football, hockey and lax) alone are probably over 15% of the men at the school. Not all of them are "recruited" and even of those recruited there is a decent percentage of them who would be getting in without sports, but there are plenty who are bumped by sports. All so they can play their sports in front of a few dozen fans excluding relatives. And note that I am a huge sports fan.[/quote]

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