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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, one point of clarification on the crew/athletics front.

The kids never turned up for crew. So there was no oversight, and no coach or AD to notice the student was not "built like a rower" or whatever.

The "recruited athlete" piece was ONLY for admissions, to get the bar low enough that these kids could cross it.

Which, if you think about it, is amazing. These students had literally every educational and social privilege possible. Prestigious PK-12 private schools, essay coaches, admissions advisors, test tutors - and they still needed a lower bar to get into college.

That's shocking when you look at it. [/quote]

Yes I was going to make the same point. They never had anything to do with the crew team so it’s irrelevant how tall or heavy they were. The crew coach gave their names to the admissions department as people he wanted to admit, and they were admitted. The admissions department doesn’t go down to practices in the fall and check if the students are there.[/quote]

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