The data released in the Harvard Asian-American lawsuit showed the enormous weight the school places on athletic accomplishment as a criterion for admission: athletes were 1,000 times more likely to win admission than non-athletes. This is a part of what that policy yields.https://twitter.com/CassSunstein/status/1128619715818078209 …
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There are presumably many forms of non-athletic distinction being sought and attained by non-athletes with an academic index of 4. But taken together, they can only yield a thousandth of the admission rate of their athletic counterparts.
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btw, I buy the claim that athletics school people in virtues essential to success. Not that they are only way to acquire them, but that they are the way to do it at scale that we have adopted here.
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So I get that athletic preference exists for a reason, but the sheer extent of it was not known with such detail until recently.
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The Atlantic article cites above did not disclose whether it referred only to recruited athletes but linked to this Crimson article that disclosed that recruited athletes with a high academic index had an 83 percent acceptance ratehttps://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/30/athlete-admissions/ …
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Don’t want to rain on anyone’s championship victory. As the thread makes clear, I’m not condemning athletic preference but calling attention to data quantifying the extent of t for recruited athletes and musing on why America is exceptional in its emphasis
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Former Solicitor General Archibald Cox told a court in 1973 that Harvard selects no more than 15 percent of its incoming class on the basis of academic potential alone. So, being a star athlete is about equal to being a star student in the school's eyes.
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The Ivy Leagues have always been inclined in this way. It’s a deep part of their traditionpic.twitter.com/yP3YpNLV2u
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The above quote was made long before millions of immigrants from Asia biased by selection priorities for the most academically oriented people from academically oriented societies arrived here. So, imagine what happens when they do.
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I am intrigued though by the scenario posed in the WSJ piece above about coders dethroning jocks on Wall Street.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1110566192098488325?s=20 …
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As another commenter noted, sports is also reasonable proxy for physical attractiveness. Andrew Yang in his book THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE reports on assortative mating merging these qualities in the next generation. LMK if you also see thispic.twitter.com/OrPh0TwEaE
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