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...disparities in SAT scores are no big deal. The response attacks The Crimson's mention of the disparity in the SAT scores between athletes and legacies and their non-athlete, non-legacy counterparts. It argues that the 130- and 35-point average differences are not "meaningful"--even though the Department of Education found them to be statistically significant--because there is not much difference between an applicant with a 1430 and an applicant with a 1300. Of course, over such a large pool, an average difference of this magnitude most certainly is meaningful. Fitzsimmons...
Implicitly recognizing the fallacy in their own argument, the officials turn to their alternative excuse: that an athletic program is "so ingrained as part of American college life that students and alumni alike have come to expect varsity sports at colleges." Agreed. Harvard officials point out that most schools bend the admissions standards far further. We agree again. But they have also claimed that some measure of preferential treatment is necessary to support a competitive Division I program. Here we must differ. We believe that if the price of "competitive" teams is lowering standards, we should be content...
...admissions office is an open book. The officials seemed positively shocked that we could claim to have "uncovered" the truth about legacies and athletes. They point to the "open" nature of the admissions process, meaning the number of officials involved and the amount of paper records generated. Our characterization of the admissions office as a "notoriously secretive bureaucracy" referred to the virtual impossibility of obtaining statistics from them, not to any paucity of paperwork in the office itself...
After the Brown meet, the Crimson travels to West Point, N.Y., to take on Army December 7. Over reading period, Harvard will travel to Fort Myers, Fla., to train for nine days...
...Crimson swam a lackluster first half, as they only held a 20-point advantage at 94-74 at the half. But Harvard managed to sweep the final seven events to win the meet going away...