Third rail of college admissions?

[OHMomof2]

@data10: the point remains that minorities are not underrepresnted in “all sports”, as was originally claimed. Using the referenced link. The percentage black students among all colleges are listed below, ordered by the sports with the largest number of athletes. Any sport with 15%+ indicates significant overrepresentation.

1. Football: 73k Athletes -- 39% Black
2. Track Outdoor: 59k Athletes -- ~21% Black
3. Track Indoor: 54k Athletes -- ~21% Black
4. Soccer: 53k Athletes -- ~6% Black
5. Basketball: 35k Athletes -- ~40% Black

These aren’t Ivy or NESCAC numbers. I didn’t say anything about colleges in general, OP wasn’t talking about colleges in general (“competitive and highly competitive colleges”) so I’m not sure how this data above is relevant to the discussion.