[JustAnotherFan]

There is no quota on "exceptional" athletes.  If we happened to have a chance at Tiger Woods, Katie Ledecky, John McEnroe all in the same year, even if they were on the lower range of the academic side, we would like admit all of them, provided they weren't below a minimum bar.  If the next year, we were only looking at one exceptional athlete, and she was below the bar, the fact that she was the only athlete of her caliber wouldn't help her.

Athletes are not competing against one another from an admissions perspective (they may be competing against one another for a limited number of scholarships, of course).

BC

I didn't say there was a quota on exceptional athletes. I said that there is so much pull coaches have on admissions and it is not unlimited. And it begs the question that if multiple sports are being dropped if that means the other sports benefit, or if that leverage just dissipates.

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There is no quota on "exceptional" athletes.  If we happened to have a chance at Tiger Woods, Katie Ledecky, John McEnroe all in the same year, even if they were on the lower range of the academic side, we would like admit all of them, provided they weren't below a minimum bar.  If the next year, we were only looking at one exceptional athlete, and she was below the bar, the fact that she was the only athlete of her caliber wouldn't help her.

Athletes are not competing against one another from an admissions perspective (they may be competing against one another for a limited number of scholarships, of course).


BC

That's the opposite of the Ivy League.  It is mandated to the athletic directors that there's a limit to the number of exceptional athletes that they can take (assuming a normal academic distribution).

The Ivy League uses an academic index which incentivizes coaches to bring on some really outstanding academic recruits with little to no chance of playing so that they can squeeze in some better athletic recruits. Just in case you were wondering who the kids sitting at the end of the bench are.

[JustAnotherFan]

There is no quota on "exceptional" athletes.  If we happened to have a chance at Tiger Woods, Katie Ledecky, John McEnroe all in the same year, even if they were on the lower range of the academic side, we would like admit all of them, provided they weren't below a minimum bar.  If the next year, we were only looking at one exceptional athlete, and she was below the bar, the fact that she was the only athlete of her caliber wouldn't help her.

Athletes are not competing against one another from an admissions perspective (they may be competing against one another for a limited number of scholarships, of course).

BC

I didn't say there was a quota on exceptional athletes. I said that there is so much pull coaches have on admissions and it is not unlimited. And it begs the question that if multiple sports are being dropped if that means the other sports benefit, or if that leverage just dissipates.

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There is no quota on "exceptional" athletes.  If we happened to have a chance at Tiger Woods, Katie Ledecky, John McEnroe all in the same year, even if they were on the lower range of the academic side, we would like admit all of them, provided they weren't below a minimum bar.  If the next year, we were only looking at one exceptional athlete, and she was below the bar, the fact that she was the only athlete of her caliber wouldn't help her.

Athletes are not competing against one another from an admissions perspective (they may be competing against one another for a limited number of scholarships, of course).


BC

That's the opposite of the Ivy League.  It is mandated to the athletic directors that there's a limit to the number of exceptional athletes that they can take (assuming a normal academic distribution).

The Ivy League uses an academic index which incentivizes coaches to bring on some really outstanding academic recruits with little to no chance of playing so that they can squeeze in some better athletic recruits. Just in case you were wondering who the kids sitting at the end of the bench are.