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...athletes??€™ efforts, the team finished the competition in second place behind UNH. With Penn State finishing third, the Harvard team secured the Ivy League and ECCC titles. Overall, Stuart C. Gillespie ’05 finished fourth in A-ranked men’s race, and Oh finished second among the A-ranked women...
Although no statistics are provided by Harvard of these athletes??€™ academic performance, The Game of Life, a book written by William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman, compares elite north eastern colleges and shows that varsity athletes perform worse academically once they have enrolled than the rest of the undergraduate population. While this observation may be explained, in part, by the amount of time that the recruits devote to athletics once in college, the underlying problem is that many recruited athletes are not as academically capable as other students...
Many people argue that raising the standards for athletic admissions would cause the quality of athletics to decline. If so, such a decline is acceptable. The relative competitiveness of the athletic programs would remain constant. Athletes??€™ experiences are predicated on this competition and not on the absolute level of skill...
...addition to the high level of skill—Kersey estimates that one-third of the team’s starters are former varsity athletes??€”the team plays with an intensity that surpasses many varsity sports...
Instead of decreasing the number of recruits, athletic directors should raise the minimum standards for athletes??€™ admission to ensure that everyone is fully part of Harvard’s academic community. Under the current byzantine admission guidelines, recruits must have an academic index score—which is composed of class rank and standardized test scores—above a minimum that is far below the average of an admitted Harvard class. Increasing the minimum academic index score required of recruits would ensure that Harvard’s primary mission of education is not sacrificed at the altar...