The subtext is that many of these athletes are competing in tiny sports that are nothing more than a backdoor way for elites and sub-elites to get their children into Ivies.
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Wonder how much of this is bureaucratic inertia - we have teams so we have to fill them
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They have a long tradition of existence both to themselves and the community at large.
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It's another way of saying "the only way to get into Harvard if they rank you a 4 academically is to be an athlete." 0.076%? You're talking about a couple of people per admissions class.
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But we all knew they were letting in athletes with academic resumes that wouldn't have gotten white or Asian non-athletes in, right?
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