Winning Big Games Does Increase Admission Applications

Turns out there's some basis for the long-held belief among college admissions officials that the better their schools' teams do in high-profile sporting events, the more applications they'll see. Until recently, evidence about the "Flutie Effect" — coined when applications to Boston College jumped about 30 percent in the two years after quarterback Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass beat Miami in 1984 — had been mostly anecdotal.So two researchers set out to quantify it, concluding after a broad study that winning the NCAA football or men's basketball title means a bump of about 8 percent, with smaller increases the reward more modest success. Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080323/ap_on_re_us/flutie_effect