Expenditure per student? Alumni giving? Ways to determine ROI

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@anon145 I have some impression that schools like Kenyon and Oberlin use sports in fact to get higher paying kids into their schools!

Many schools do, esp with certain sports. There was an expansion of LAX teams at midwest colleges awhile back for this reason - they wanted to keep those full pay kids from going east.

@Mwfan1921 Point is that schools practicing this behavior, all the while communicating they are need blind with respect to admission, is disingenuous. If a recruited athlete has an EFC of 0, is admissions more likely to say no to the coach? It raises many questions.

It does.

One NESCAC (Amherst, who made their athletic impact study available) actually encourages coaches to bring athletes who are first gen/low income or URM to admissions attention so they won’t be counted against that coach’s quota - because that particular school actively looks for those kids. That is likely not the case at every NESCAC, they vary a lot in mission and resources.