Athletics
Why is athletics considered in college admissions?
Schools have athletic teams that compete, and they want to fill their teams with good players.
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What are legacy admissions?
Legacy admissions are when a college takes into account whether or not the applicant has relatives who previously attended the college and if those alumni have donated money to the college.
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What was Affirmative Action?
Affirmative Action was a policy used in college admissions that helped represent minorities such as Black, Hispanic, or low-income families. It brought race into consideration when judging applicants to bring about extra diversity.
The Future of College Admissions without Affirmative Action
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How can college admissions be made more fair?
Legacy admissions are the largest issue in college admissions. Legacy admissions should be abolished. The best things to do besides that are increasing the availability of "country club" sports and improving the K-12 education system.
True or False
College athletics is not discriminatory towards race.
False
Though it is not on the surface, athletics often favors white applicants in college.
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True or False
Legacy students often come from less well-off and more impoverished households.
False
Legacy students are typically from rich, white families.
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Why might a college have used affirmative action?
They often used Affirmative Action to give minority students, like Black, Hispanic, or low-income families a chance in college to get a higher education and to diversify the student body and expose every student to the different lives they all lived.
The Future of College Admissions without Affirmative Action
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True or False
Does an advantage gap exist within legacy students?
True
Even among legacies, the richest have an advantage.
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How is athletics weaponized in order to propel applicants into top colleges?
Many high-income families strategically plan the activities of their children to appeal to colleges.
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True or False
Legacy admissions decrease college access for Hispanic, Black, and low-income applicants
True
The more spots taken by white legacy students, the less spots are left for other races.
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True or False
Diversity in colleges dropped after the cancellation of Affirmative Action
True
After the end of Affirmative Action, prevalent universities like MIT reported huge drops in the amount of Black and Hispanic students attending the school in the incoming class. MIT reported that their percentage of Black students dropped from 15% to 5%.
The Future of College Admissions without Affirmative Action
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What is AxE?
AxE is admission by exception, when a college admits an applicant that they normally would not.
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Why are college admissions often skewed towards high-income white athletes?
The athletics in college are often country-club style games and games that require a large sum of money to purchase equipment for.
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Why would a college feel incentivized to consider legacy admissions during college admissions?
Most colleges claim it is to gather extra money (donations) to help fund the college, and to foster a sense of community among students that may already be familiar.
How Big Is the Legacy Boost at Elite Colleges?
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How does the lack of diversity in colleges after Affirmative Action's end affect students' perspective on the world?
The less diversity there is, the less opportunities that students will be exposed to the varying experiences that people with different upbringings than them have had.
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What is the intended purpose of admission by exception?
Admission by exception is intended to boost athletes and minorities to ensure that they qualify.
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Where do leadership roles in athletics commonly go?
White and private school students report more top-level leadership positions in athletics than Asian and public school students.
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Roughly what percent of private 4-year colleges consult legacy status during admissions?
Roughly 1/3
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On what basis did the Supreme Court rule Affirmative Action was unconstitutional?
The Supreme Court ruled that Affirmative Action was unconstitutional because it denied applicants their 14th Amendment right of equal protection under the law, which prohibited the use of race to determine who could go where or do what.
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Who benefits from admission by exception?
Whites benefit an abnormally high amount from admission by exception. By comparison, groups like Asian Americans do not receive as much admission by exception as they should.
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