<p>mam1959,
I’m not disputing your point about the favoritism sometimes shown to athletes, but in the case of W&M, the numbers for the women admitted this way are pretty small. According to published NCAA data, for an entering class of approximately 700 women each year, only about 25 of them are women receiving athletics aid, or about 3.5% of the entering women. And that assumes that all of them weren’t up to par academically. Surely, there are others not receiving aid who are advantaged in the admissions process, but the numbers aren’t very large.</p>