Harvard Lawsuit

[sanantone]

I would think athletes would be way more black than white, but maybe I'm only looking at certain big-draw sports like basketball and football?

Most of Harvard's athletes are white. You have to keep in mind that elite schools give more attention to sports that aren't popular with people who aren't wealthy and definitely aren't popular with minorities: polo, lacrosse, golf, etc. 


https://www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...ts/573688/

For one, many elite colleges—including Ivy League schools and smaller Division III colleges—don’t offer athletic scholarships, so they can’t give low-income sports stars a free ride like big, Division I schools can.

I should have played golf instead of basketball.

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These stats are from 2005, but it's proof that black athletes are not benefiting from Harvard's admissions practices.

While the most recent edition of the University of Central Florida’s Racial and Gender Report Card (2005) estimates that 20.6 percent of NCAA Division I scholarship athletes are black, Harvard’s recruited athletes—who cannot receive scholarships as per the rules of the Ivy League—do not come close to such a percentage.

According to official data obtained by The Crimson, the percentage of black athletes at Harvard not only hovers around a fourth of the national average, but is actually lower than the percentage of African-Americans in the wider student body.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/...mbrbefore/