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. ... When 6-foot-9-inch basketball star Kevin Ross played for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, he didn't even know the score (Charen 420). Literally he wasn't able to interpret the score of the game, all he knew was whether his team was winning or losing. ... There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted into universities due to that fact...

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This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. ... In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. ... 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. ... Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. ... In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. ... 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. ... Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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