<p>Let’s assume that athletic recruits lower the average SAT of all Ivies. (Statistically a given, the facts aren’t on hand though) Princeton currently has some number x of recruits and y number of students. As y increases over the next few years with x remaining a constant, the SAT average will surely rise. The number of recruits will be constant, even with the addition of students because these new students will be predominantly academic and/or artistic in nature. Just doing the math. On the other hand, there have been several occasions in this thread and others where you proclaim “numbers aren’t everything” or something to that effect with regards to quality of undergrad education. Yet, you proudly spout out a nominal yield advantage in Yale’s favor. A yield differential so small that it shouldn’t be considered nor does it affect the quality of the undergraduate education. Moreover, I’ll give you a suspension of disbelief and assume those numbers are significant. I thought “numbers weren’t everything.” Doesn’t look like you are just doing the math bulldog, looks more like you are just doing the rhetoric. (I can’t fault you though, other prominent Yalies have taken heat over the past few years for indecisive and misleading proclamations)</p>