Any school could admit just on statistics, but I don’t know any that do. All seem to consider the rest of the student’s life, including sports. There are leadership skills, team work strategies that seem to help
I was just watching the Yale/Navy lacrosse game and the announcer noted one of the Yale players (a star) had a 3.9 in some kind of macro biology major. I wonder if he would have a 4.0 if he didn’t play lacrosse? I know he wouldn’t have enjoyed college nearly as much. The game was a sell out at Yale so some students seem to like sports.