<p>I think for a lot of folks when sports are mentioned it is assumed it is football or basketball (revenue sports). However, there are many other sports that are available at colleges and are recruited. These student very often have profiles that are equivalent to the student who get in without sports, so there is no reduction in quality of the student body through this process. And sometime earlier this year someone posted on another forum that Stanford’s football team had a fairly large number of NMS on it.</p>