<p>If OP is unwilling to accept the explanation for the sports admissions process phenomenon from us CCers (he did ask us, after all), perhaps he ought to take his question to the source: Just about every institution of “higher learning” from Harvard all the way down to my local community college, engages in the same practice. If they are operating on “flawed arguments,” then perhaps OP (and yuiop) ought to enlighten them.</p>