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I wish to thank Luiz Valente for posting the list of all of the league Div-I hockey schools comparative academic standings. I have been awaiting this all summer since he posted a partial list back in June or July. Most interesting was the later discussion of how the academic index is used by the NC$$. I read well over a week's mail now rather rapidly, but if I under stand things correctly, it does not seem to me to matter too much (as others have stated). The average academic index of all the incoming freshman scholarship athletes (in a given sport, I assume) must be within one standard deviation of the average incoming freshman. The only time that should be a problem is when the sample is extremely small -- an incoming class of only one or two athletes. I dusted off my old grade books from when I was a graduate Teaching Assistant at RPI and computed the average grade that I gave to hockey players and compared it with the average grade that I gave to all students. Now, clearly college grades are not the same as some combination of SATs, high-school average, etc., but the same thing should happen. Also, RPI did not give ath- letic scholarships at the time, so would not have had to meet this standard had it been in effect in the late '60s - early '70s. Although the hockey players were perceived on average as lesser students than the average student at RPI, and also the Calculus courses that I taught were perceived as one of the more difficult that Management majors took, the hockey-player average is well within one standard deviation of the general average. Ralph Baer RPI '68, '70, '74 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.