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<blockquote data-quote="mstranahan" data-source="post: 369762" data-attributes="member: 2802"><p>Interesting topic and clearly one that gets people riled up. I'll try to add my $.02 without fanning the flames.</p><p></p><p>I believe it is a fairly established fact that all P5 universities (and most D1, non P5) admit athletes who would ever gain admission if they were not athletes. That isn't dishonest or illegal or anything like that. It's just a fact. </p><p></p><p>Second, on any team (especially football with huge roster), there are kids with great academic credentials and some with less stellar portfolios. The average will always pull up the lower performers, so it is a relatively meaningless statistic. I believe they should publish the mean, median, standard deviation, min and max if they really want to talk about the academic credentials on the team. (I mean everyone, not just GT)</p><p></p><p>That said, if the football team's SAT is ~1080 and the general student body is ~1450, it is obvious, de facto, that Tech admits a great number of football players who would never get in as non-athletes. (I don't have the stats for basketball and baseball, but they are harder to look at statistically since the CLT doesn't apply to small populations.</p><p></p><p>Just to be clear (I don't want [USER=1374]@Peacone36[/USER] or [USER=2844]@Jumpman[/USER] to kill me on this!), I am not saying Tech is doing anything wrong or dishonest. I'm not saying they pay players. Nothing of the sort. I don't think they do, and I have no evidence that would point in that direction. I'm just saying that in this general regard, Tech admissions is in the same place as every other school</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstranahan, post: 369762, member: 2802"] Interesting topic and clearly one that gets people riled up. I'll try to add my $.02 without fanning the flames. I believe it is a fairly established fact that all P5 universities (and most D1, non P5) admit athletes who would ever gain admission if they were not athletes. That isn't dishonest or illegal or anything like that. It's just a fact. Second, on any team (especially football with huge roster), there are kids with great academic credentials and some with less stellar portfolios. The average will always pull up the lower performers, so it is a relatively meaningless statistic. I believe they should publish the mean, median, standard deviation, min and max if they really want to talk about the academic credentials on the team. (I mean everyone, not just GT) That said, if the football team's SAT is ~1080 and the general student body is ~1450, it is obvious, de facto, that Tech admits a great number of football players who would never get in as non-athletes. (I don't have the stats for basketball and baseball, but they are harder to look at statistically since the CLT doesn't apply to small populations. Just to be clear (I don't want [USER=1374]@Peacone36[/USER] or [USER=2844]@Jumpman[/USER] to kill me on this!), I am not saying Tech is doing anything wrong or dishonest. I'm not saying they pay players. Nothing of the sort. I don't think they do, and I have no evidence that would point in that direction. I'm just saying that in this general regard, Tech admissions is in the same place as every other school [/QUOTE]
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