Third rail of college admissions?

I see 9.2% black, averaging the 8 schools and not counting biracial students. Which would make them slightly UNDER-represented and definitely not some driver of diversity as suggested earlier in this thread.

And the NESCAC numbers are even more skewed. In the case of one of them, at least, athletic recruits that are institutional priorities for other reasons - racial or SES diversity, first gen - aren’t even counted against the coach’s quota. Leaving all the quota athletes white, higher income and not-first-gen. IDK if all the other schools do it that way too, most schools haven’t published that level of detail about their programs.

In neither case can we say that athletic recruiting benefits black students. Or minority students at all.

We don’t have SES but I’d guess it’s not helping poor kids either.