Yale athletes discuss their SAT/ACT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think colleges would all be better off if we kept a few revenue generating and profile raising sports, those might be the dirty secret admissions like donor class, and moved on.

So many rich kids getting into Princeton for sailing or water polo. It adds nothing. It's dumb. These kids bring nothing special to the table.The campus would be better off w more kids who have worked jobs or been the yearbook editor and gotten a 1550

I put this to my DD at Yale and she said she’d rather have dinner with a champion sailor than yet another 1550 yearbook editor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think colleges would all be better off if we kept a few revenue generating and profile raising sports, those might be the dirty secret admissions like donor class, and moved on.

So many rich kids getting into Princeton for sailing or water polo. It adds nothing. It's dumb. These kids bring nothing special to the table.The campus would be better off w more kids who have worked jobs or been the yearbook editor and gotten a 1550

I put this to my DD at Yale and she said she’d rather have dinner with a champion sailor than yet another 1550 yearbook editor

Or a basketball player!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT loves athletes!

They do as long as they have a minimum 1550 and preferred 1570 on the Math SAT. MIT has the largest D3 sports program in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT loves athletes!

They do as long as they have a minimum 1550 and preferred 1570 on the Math SAT. MIT has the largest D3 sports program in the country.

Times change. I know a guy who couldn't even make my high school's very average team in a fairly prominent sport who was on the team at MIT in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think colleges would all be better off if we kept a few revenue generating and profile raising sports, those might be the dirty secret admissions like donor class, and moved on.

So many rich kids getting into Princeton for sailing or water polo. It adds nothing. It's dumb. These kids bring nothing special to the table.The campus would be better off w more kids who have worked jobs or been the yearbook editor and gotten a 1550

I put this to my DD at Yale and she said she’d rather have dinner with a champion sailor than yet another 1550 yearbook editor

"yet another"? my kid is at Princeton and says there are no newspaper/yearbook kids there. we were talking about this over Christmas. high schools have moved to a million niche journals that come out once every three years so every kid is a founding editor to the journal of molecular sciences or international relations (one issue ever)

[Anonymous]

a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

[Anonymous]

MIT has a rifle team including a woman with a hijab from Palestine. Definitely not a country club background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

PP: D3 Power

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

according to CDS,

2.4% of MIT admits submitting an ACT (31%) have a ACT MATH score of 24-29.
4.8% of MIT admits submitting an ACT have a ACT Science score of 24-29.

you guys act like they're never taking these kids. they are.

and they took a lot more during test optional cycles which is what these Yale recruits are from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

according to CDS,

2.4% of MIT admits submitting an ACT (31%) have a ACT MATH score of 24-29.
4.8% of MIT admits submitting an ACT have a ACT Science score of 24-29.

you guys act like they're never taking these kids. they are.

and they took a lot more during test optional cycles which is what these Yale recruits are from.

One of us has a MIT recruited athlete. The other person is you. I can't explain the 2.4% with an ACT of 24-29 but I would guess that those scores were ultimately replaced with higher SAT Math scores since 100% of the mat SAT scores were above 700. MIT will not accept someone that they do not believe can handle the Math.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

according to CDS,

2.4% of MIT admits submitting an ACT (31%) have a ACT MATH score of 24-29.
4.8% of MIT admits submitting an ACT have a ACT Science score of 24-29.

you guys act like they're never taking these kids. they are.

and they took a lot more during test optional cycles which is what these Yale recruits are from.

One of us has a MIT recruited athlete. The other person is you. I can't explain the 2.4% with an ACT of 24-29 but I would guess that those scores were ultimately replaced with higher SAT Math scores since 100% of the mat SAT scores were above 700. MIT will not accept someone that they do not believe can handle the Math.

you mean 100% of kids who submitted an SAT. which is 83% now ...

I wouldnt get too worked up about 100% when almost 1 out of every 5 students dont submit that at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

according to CDS,

2.4% of MIT admits submitting an ACT (31%) have a ACT MATH score of 24-29.
4.8% of MIT admits submitting an ACT have a ACT Science score of 24-29.

you guys act like they're never taking these kids. they are.

and they took a lot more during test optional cycles which is what these Yale recruits are from.

One of us has a MIT recruited athlete. The other person is you. I can't explain the 2.4% with an ACT of 24-29 but I would guess that those scores were ultimately replaced with higher SAT Math scores since 100% of the mat SAT scores were above 700. MIT will not accept someone that they do not believe can handle the Math.

you mean 100% of kids who submitted an SAT. which is 83% now ...

I wouldnt get too worked up about 100% when almost 1 out of every 5 students dont submit that at all.

I believe MIT requires that all applicants submit scores now. My sense is that not all student-athletes score a 35+, but I suppose I could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

To state what should be obvious, the odds of being both a standout athlete interested in playing at the college level and scoring in the 99.99 percentile on the SAT/ACT are slim. There may not be enough of these people to fill all the team spots available at top-ranked schools.

If you don’t believe there should be teams in the first place, why pay all the tuition money to the schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:a couple of MIT soccer recruits from our HS who werent' even in top 10% of class. helps a lot if you're a girl.

The number of kids who can open with A 750Mis the first hurdle. The 750M and good enough to play is a fairly high hurdle in many sports. In others like girls volleyball the pool gets a bit bigger. MIT is a perennial girls volleyball power along with JHU.

according to CDS,

2.4% of MIT admits submitting an ACT (31%) have a ACT MATH score of 24-29.
4.8% of MIT admits submitting an ACT have a ACT Science score of 24-29.

you guys act like they're never taking these kids. they are.

and they took a lot more during test optional cycles which is what these Yale recruits are from.

One of us has a MIT recruited athlete. The other person is you. I can't explain the 2.4% with an ACT of 24-29 but I would guess that those scores were ultimately replaced with higher SAT Math scores since 100% of the mat SAT scores were above 700. MIT will not accept someone that they do not believe can handle the Math.

you mean 100% of kids who submitted an SAT. which is 83% now ...

I wouldnt get too worked up about 100% when almost 1 out of every 5 students dont submit that at all.

I believe MIT requires that all applicants submit scores now. My sense is that not all student-athletes score a 35+, but I suppose I could be wrong.

These stats are most recent and are from a test required year. 1 in 5 don’t submit a SAT. They may submit an SCT and 5% have an ACT, in science, under 30. 2.5% have an ACT in math under 30.