... to find how they can put a stop to this growing problem. In May 2002, The Chattanooga Times ran a story entitled, "New test for athletics. Reform movements want drastic changes in college sports." There are several grassroots movements throughout the country that want drastic changes to ... her effort to get colleges back on the right track, that would be the educational track, not the competitive sport one. Every week new controversies arise. Recently, thirty-nine copies of University of Tennessee athlete's transcripts were released to the Southeastern Conference investigator Bill Sieve...

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... what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment. In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to a student at large, and they are still dominating ... college admission. The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. Only 100 po...

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... what the primary mission of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment. In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to a student at large, and they are still dominating ... college admission. The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. Only 100 po...

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... . Nowadays a substantial amount of college Athletes are given more leniencies towards the academic standards, which are expected from others. Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. Providing athletes and soon to be athletes with privileges that are not ... are eligible to enter universities, and are rejected because they are not star athletes. There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted i...

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