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...three demographics, male high profile athletes are the least academically qualified. In a study from 1995 that controlled for differences in race, field of study, and SAT scores, the data shows that in the Ivy League academic setting, male high profile athletic recruits significantly underperformed compared to lower profile male recruits and female recruits. In some women’s sports, athletes even outperform their non-athletic peers academically. While there are many high profile male athletes who are as smart and qualified as their non-athlete peers, you can get away with being grossly under qualified for college...
...perception of collegiate athletic culture and the aura of intimidation that surrounds men’s high profile sports. As of now, the stipulations of Title IX do not take into account that men’s high profile sports are recipients of significant outside funding from alumni that lower profile men and women’s sports entirely lack. Athletic opportunities have been institutionally equalized, but are not yet fair in execution...
...unofficial but intense favoritism of high profile male athletic teams fosters an atmosphere of power of and catering to the athletes. Athletes, especially well-known males, receive more publicity, more media attention, more popularity, and more respect than their female or lower-power counterparts, even though many prove themselves consistently unable to measure up in an academic setting. In the eyes of the colleges, and in the eyes of many other students, these players are not student-athletes; they are athlete-students...
...Reality of Inequity By EMMA M. LIND Friday, April 21, 2006 2:06 AM There lingers a persistent and intangible biased distribution of social clout between high profile male athletes and lower profile male and female athletes...
...unfair to prefrosh and to those students who aren’t taking these tests,” he wrote in an e-mail. Last year, prefrosh weekend did not fall on the same weekend as the MCAT test. The Boston Globe reported last March that Harvard undergraduates gave lower ratings to their college experience than students at other elite schools in a 2002 survey. The comparatively low rating of faculty accessibility and social life confirmed the long-held stereotype that, despite Harvard’s reputation as the gold standard of education, the University in many ways fails...