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Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent

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The Role of Sports in College Admissions

One in every eight of the very affluent kids at these schools is a recruited athlete. Sports do skew white affluent, and as those numbers show, it's not just on the margins. The issue is that when you look at it from a society-wide basis, this seems to be perpetuating advantage.

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