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Subject: Re: Two Men's Differing Opinions


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Son of Eli
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Date Posted: 15:05:59 11/18/25 Tue
In reply to: An Observer 's message, "Two Men's Differing Opinions" on 13:51:48 11/18/25 Tue

Bad sports teams don’t equal better academic reputations. What was the Ivy League’s athletic reputation before the AI was instituted around 1982? I would argue much better than today. Plus not having an AI hasn’t seemed to hurt Stanford’s,Duke’s, Notre Dame’s, Northwestern, etc. academic reputations any. Regardless , with grade inflation AI is irrelevant nowadays.

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Son of Eli
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Date Posted: 15:14:08 11/18/25 Tue

Plus I think an employer would much rather hire an Ivy athlete than an Ivy graduate who didn’t play sports, even if the non athlete was a bit ‘smarter”. The athletes are better rounded candidates who will be able to fit in better in a team environment. Not everything is GPA and SAT scores.
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Go Green
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Date Posted: 15:23:58 11/18/25 Tue


My recollection was that Penn was widely regarded as a bottom-tier Ivy from the 1970s to 2000. Keith Elias once famously declared in 1993 that half of Penn couldn't get into Princeton.

Admittedly, not all of that was because of athletics. But at least *some* of it was.


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