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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore .. from 2003 .. this isn't a new problem https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/opinion/choosing-athletes-over-students.html[/quote] Note that the NYT 2003 article states "But they are cause for concern at small colleges, where the Bowen-Levin book counted a quarter of the men and a fifth of the women on campus as athletes, more than half of them recruits." The average of 1/5 and 1/4 is 22.5%; let's assume that by "more than half" they mean something like 60%. So 60% of 22.5% would be 13.5%. So basically this is in line with the data from the Washington Post article and almost the same as the top 30, D1 private university figure from that article of 12%. Again, there's no empirical evidence supporting that at top LACs 40% of the students are recruited. The real number on average is about 1/3 of that, or low to mid teens. There are outliers like Davidson (24%), but even at those the number is going to be far lower than 40%.[/quote]
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