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Subject: Re: Ivy Sports/ The Portal/ Slots/Backlash


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Memphis Bill
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Date Posted: 10:12:53 04/23/24 Tue
In reply to: M3 's message, "Ivy Sports/ The Portal/ Slots/Backlash" on 10:06:41 04/23/24 Tue

Agree that this is another aspect of the Brave New World we are in that is sub-optimal (i.e., it sucks). One mitigating factor, from the perspective of the student who got into Ivy U without benefit of a sports slot, is the fact that Ivy Coaches cannot replace a player lost to the Portal with another player admitted via admissions slot. Another example of how disadvantageous the Portal is to our League, we lose some of our best talent, and cannot replace that loss in any way.

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Date Posted: 10:31:59 04/23/24 Tue

Given the somewhat closed universe of Ivy recruiting, I’m wondering whether some B-level recruits may now tend to go for the Ivy they prefer as opposed to the one where they think they’ll have the best chance to play, which now is much tougher to divine.

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Date Posted: 11:15:47 04/23/24 Tue

Rather than get into a sentence-by-sentence deconstruction of the Bari Weiss universe, let’s just say that Joisey, which since time immemorial has exported more students than any other state — not %, numbers, more bodies than either New York or California, for example — has been sending kids west, south, north, and east for many decades. The idea it’s much better publicized now is all to the good, because they should go where they fit, not where they or their parents live, or THINK they should want to go.

The idea that this will have any discernable effect on the Ivies in the near future is a misguided fallback on the idea that there is some magic list of 2000 students that compose an ideal Harvard class (for example). In fact, the ideal class is one of thousands of selections of 2000 of the 25,000 fully-qualified applicants. There have been 10-20% of admittees who have been turning down Harvard forever, and it’s part of the game.

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