By: Kevin

Kevin
Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:14:10 +0000

To those who said that football adds to the quantity and quality of applicants, you are only half-right. While schools with athletic success do see an increase in applications in the year(s) following those feats, the actual quantity remains unchanged. The average scores remain unchanged and the number of acceptances remain unchanged. Basically, the people who are applying to schools that are successful athletically are not going to be the stronger students that enhance the applicant pool and therefore the student population. This shouldn't come as a total surprise, as the students who enhance the universities academically are more interested in the research and teaching side than the athletics the school offers. That is why Ivy league schools continue to reign supreme despite having little to no investment or success athletically.