Volume 52, Number 8 · May 12, 2005
Jocks and the Academy
By Benjamin DeMott
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values
by William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin
Princeton University Press, 490 pp., $60.00; $19.95 (paper)
What standards govern the admissions policies of the country's most 'selective' institutions of higher learning, i.e., the prestigious schools with the highest standards of admission? Often not the advertised standards, according to the authors of Reclaiming the Game, a book aimed at exposing and ending a scandal in American academic culture. The supposed key factors determining admission are SAT scores, rank in class, parents' money and degrees, teachers' recommendations, the applicant's performance of after-school good works, and evidence of multiple talents (the applicant plays the tuba, tight end, Hamlet).
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