Commentary: If recruitment to a college sports team gives an advantage in admissions, then it should be a binding contract that comes with liability, like all other legal agreements.
A Pennsylvania player dunks against Harvard University during a NCAA men's college basketball championship game in the Ivy League Tournament in 2018 in Philadelphia.
Another bomb has struck the college admissions process. Rather than a Supreme Court decision, this time it’s research from a group called Opportunity Insights consisting of Harvard University economists who study inequality. Their research found thatin college admissions by virtue of being needed on the playing fields — and those same applicants tend to be wealthier, sometimes very wealthy.
The connection between wealth and superior athletic performance isn’t that hard to trace. Participating in sports can cost quite a bit and price out poor families. Research from the Mott Children’s Hospitalat the University of Michigan found that “only 30% of students in families with annual household incomes of less than $60,000 played school sports, compared with 51% of students in families that earned $60,000 or more a year.
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