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“There are many other universities that offer more focused and prominent athletic programs than Harvard, so the desire to be an athlete here is based on the desire for academic excellence first,” Crockett says.
“It draws people from places and backgrounds and parts of the country where excellence and achievement is much more identified with athletic prowess than with academic prowess,” Lewis says.
The need to avoid intense competition in admission for athletic stars, led the Ivy League presidents in 1979 to institute the academic index—a score assigned to recruits based on their standardized test scores and their high school class rank—that is still in place today...
Athletic directors involved in the current meetings this spring say further reforms of what were initially laid out in this report could be the chosen route of the presidents to reform the League’s athletics.
Last June, Orleans says the Ivy presidents made it clear to the athletic directors that they once again wanted to look into the number of recruits.