<p>Could it be that maintaining a preference for varsity sports also serves the college's ethnic diversity goals? I don't mean to offend by stereotyping, but fielding a good baskteball team at a college, for example, will likely result in recruiting some African-American students. In turn, a school with a good basketball team will interest other African-American students. And at our high school at least, Asian-Americans are well-represented among the academic and musical elite, but almost non-existent among the athletic elite. Accepting only the academic elites could produce an Asian-dominant student body.</p>