<p>megan12, Haverford does not “need” to recruit athletes. They want to recruit athletes, because they don’t want to “lose every game they play in every sport”. To them, students winning games in sports many of them will never play again after college is more important than a fair admissions process that gives equal opportunity in admissions to students who stand out in the arts, speech and debate, journalism, or any other extra-curricular activity, including academic ones like science fairs.</p>