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2. Entrance requirements were lowered, or waived, to allow academically unqualified athletes to be admitted to the university.
But the scandal offered a strong suggestion that the ones who had unjustly earned slots were wealthy, mostly white and academically unqualified.
That big-time college athletics in this country, and football especially, is a sinkhole of corruption and hypocrisy, turning the academically unqualified into professional-athletes-in-disguise, is hardly news of course.
They also bring down the value of the university's core "product", as schools offer places and often lavish scholarships to academically unqualified student athletes.Perhaps the most surprising reason is that research indicates these less than academic athletes may increase the quality and graduation rates of other students.
Academic counselors were said to have facilitated this culture in order to maintain athletes that would otherwise be academically unqualified to play sports (Barrett, 2015; Lyall, 2014; Neff & Kane, 2014).
The blockbuster college admissions scandal continues to make headlines: The rich and powerful are being charged with engaging in fraudulent practices (bribery and fixing test scores) to get their academically unqualified kids into a number of elite colleges.
They believe deserving white students are discriminated against while academically unqualified students are given highly coveted college or company positions ― just because they happen to tick the "ethnic minority" box.
Academically ineligible?
And academically?
November 2: Unqualified applications cut.
No assertion goes unqualified.
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