What’s the real deal with athletic recruiting?
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Anonymous
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Curious to hear how ‘off’ academically/score wise from a school’s regular admission class a recruited athlete can be. A little? A lot? I assume it depends in part on the athletes overall rank.
Fwiw my dc is into his sport but doesn’t care about using it as a ‘hook’ to get into a ‘reach’ school (assuming he could, of course) so I’m asking for my own education, not because he’ll be trying to take anyone’s spot at HYP 😝 |
Anonymous
| Anecdotally, what I've seen is kids who are already well qualified for a school using it as a hook. So the 1600 SAT kid who is also a strong football player gets into MIT, the star swimmer who is also an amazing student gets into Stanford. Basically a way to distiguish yourself from the 30,000 other kids who are also qualified to get into the school. |
Anonymous
| I can see that at an MIT - not really an athletic powerhouse, but Stanford? D1 schools? Interesting. |
Anonymous
Stanford, Duke they are certainly relaxing the academic standards for some of their recruited athletes. Ivies relax them too, but the overall recruiting class needs to be somewhat in line with the student body as a whole. So the goal numbers might be 1400 instead of 1550 to clear the hurdle as a recruited athlete. If you google ivy academic index you can read more about this mystery way they make these calculations High academic D3 typically don’t have much wiggle room except for 1 or 2 athletes per sport. Overall we’ve seen kids end up at an academic fit (except for the high academic P4 schools). |
Anonymous
| What’s a p4 schools? |
Anonymous
| School |
Anonymous
Members of the “Power Four” conferences big 10, big 12, SEC, ACC |
Anonymous
Aha, thanks. Of course those power 4 schools are my kids’ dream schools (not for academics, but for his sport) so it’s going to be a touchy year for us. |
Anonymous
| The kid from DC’s school who just got into MIT for his sport had SAT of 1550+ and is in MV Calc/Linear Algebra. |
Anonymous
What’s his sport? |
Anonymous
Excellent stats of course but that’s D3 |
Anonymous
What do you think fool |
Anonymous
| Definitely stats are relaxed for football basketball baseball players |
Anonymous
| If the Coach wants you in a competitive D1 or D3 school, the academics are not the leading weight in the admissions process at that point. |
Anonymous
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What’s a competitive D3 school? Do you mean like academically competitive? Or actually competitive in the sport?
Like the MIT reference is funny to me. |