Reclaiming the Game:
College Sports and Educational Values
William G. Bowen & Sarah A. Levin
In collaboration with James L. Schulman, Colin G. Campbell, Susanne C. Pichler, & Martin A. Kurzweil

Paper | 2005 | $24.95 / £14.95
496 pp. | 6 x 9 | 54 line illus. 39 tables.

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Colleges and Universities Included in the Database

Ivy League Universities
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University (College of Arts & Sciences; College of Engineering)
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

UAA Universities
arnegie Mellon University
Emory University
University of Chicago
Washington University in St. Louis

Women's Colleges
Bryn Mawr College
Smith College
Wellesley College

NESCAC Colleges
Amherst College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Colby College
Connecticut College
Hamilton College
Middlebury College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Wesleyan University
Williams College

Coed Liberal Arts College
Carleton College
Denison University
Kenyon College
Macalester College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College

FREQUENTLY USED TERMS

Admissions advantage: The likelihood of admission for a recruited athlete (or another type of student) relative to the likelihood of admission for a student at large with the same credentials.

Athlete: Any student who was listed on the roster of an intercollegiate athletic team at any point in his or her college career.

Athletic divide: The tendency for recruited athletes to differ systematically from students at large in academic credentials (such as SAT scores), in academic outcomes (such as majors chosen and rank-in-class), and in patterns of residential and social life; sometimes also referred to as the "academic-athletic divide."

High profile sports: Football, basketball and men's ice hockey - the sports that have historically received the most attention at many of the schools in this study.

Low profile sports: All men's sports other than High Profile sports.

Recruited athlete: A student who, as an applicant, was included on a coach's list submitted to the admissions office.

Student at large: Any student who was not listed on an athletic roster.

Underperformance: The phenomenon of a group's having a lower GPA or rank-in-class than would be predicted based on pre-college achievement and other observable characteristics

Walk-on athlete: An intercollegiate athlete who was not included on the coach's list submitted to the admissions office.

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