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Don’t miss that the effect on athletes is quite a bit larger than the effect on legacies! See page 4. Legacy admissions are indefensible, but athletic admissi
by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Don’t miss that the effect on athletes is quite a bit larger than the effect on legacies! See page 4.
Legacy admissions are indefensible, but athletic admissions are even less so. (Less than 0, I guess?)
No one outside of Harvard cares how their fencing team does and (I presume) 99% of current Harvard students don’t either.
If you want to find the group that is most unjustly benefitted by a dumb feature of the admissions process it’s in my view athletes.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoNot sure I understand this take. Maybe you're under the impression that Harvard is trying to maximize academic success? They're not. They're trying to maximize alumni power and career success. It's quite reasonable to assume that someone who is the best in the world at a sport will be able to succeed at other things they focus on.