Affirmative action was not a tool of “preference,” but a crucial countermeasure against racial and social disadvantages and bias in the college admissions process, writes Angelo Vidal.
“In the public imagination, college athletics is commonly thought of as more racially diverse than other parts of the student body,” the authors insist. “In the real world, however, the overall composition of rosters that include country club sports like crew, fencing, water polo, and lacrosse tilts the playing field overwhelmingly toward white students at elite universities.”Across six Ivy League schools, the study found that white students make up 71% of athletes.
Using Harvard data as an example, researchers calculated that a white athlete’s chance of admission is 53.3% higher than a white non-athlete. On the other hand, Black, Latinx, and Asian American athletes see anywhere from a 53.5% to 80.3% decrease in probability of admission compared to non-athletes in their respective racial groups.
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