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[quote=Anonymous]Let’s just be honest…tons of people like sports including most adults that run these schools.  Far more follow professional and college sports than attend arts performances (or maybe even like the fine arts).

While it’s true that Yale may want a top robotics team, it’s unlikely to find a top contributor that just seems to have a knack for winning robotics competitions but only scored a 1200…of course, it’s nearly 100% correlated between academic and robotics ability (although knowing how to work CnC routers and laser cutters and what not is also important).

I also doubt the award winning cellist is also scoring 1200.

I also doubt that the average kid walking down campus would even know if the school had a robotics team and if it is any good…but they probably know who won the Harvard Yale football game.

What people likely fail to realize is that athletic recruiting was 1000x more pronounced up until like 1960s when Ivy schools were actually nationally ranked in sports like football.  Back then, they just took the top prep school players and barely looked at their transcripts.[/quote]

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