Foul: A Critique of Collegiate Athletics, Recruitment, and Admissions
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The college admissions process is nothing short of complicated. There are repetitive
forms to fill out, standardized test scores to send out, letters of recommendation to ask for,
financial aid to apply for, and dozens of essays to write all in the hope of being accepted to at
least one of the various colleges applied to. When the acceptance letters finally roll around in
early spring amid the pollen and cheers of joy there reminds one question that remains
unanswered: how exactly did you get into the college or university that you attend? While you
can argue that your application was a perfect fit for the institution given a variety of reasons (i.e.
GPA, standardized test scores, or extracurricular activities) the answer may still be unclear.
Others may argue that affirmative action played a role in an individual’s admittance into a
college especially if the individual is not white. Yet there still remains another group of people
that may argue that upper-middle-class white students had more advantages when applying to
college due to the variety of resources they had access to when initially applying. However, if
you were recruited to play a sport at a college or university the answer to the posed question
becomes significantly easier to answer in spite of the complexity of the admissions process.