What’s the real deal with athletic recruiting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD...4.0 GPA (Literally like everyone else), 24 ACT score. Admitted to Duke with 70% soccer scholarship.

Wow she’s dumb but she must be great at soccer

Sorry, but being gifted in a sport is much more important than her ACT score

Exactly and she’ll end up coaching soccer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD...4.0 GPA (Literally like everyone else), 24 ACT score. Admitted to Duke with 70% soccer scholarship.

Wow she’s dumb but she must be great at soccer

Sorry, but being gifted in a sport is much more important than her ACT score

Exactly and she’ll end up coaching soccer

Nah...come on - she will be an analyst or marketing something or IT something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD...4.0 GPA (Literally like everyone else), 24 ACT score. Admitted to Duke with 70% soccer scholarship.

Wow she’s dumb but she must be great at soccer

Sorry, but being gifted in a sport is much more important than her ACT score

Soccer at Duke gets dumb kids into Duke (oh and basketball)

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD...4.0 GPA (Literally like everyone else), 24 ACT score. Admitted to Duke with 70% soccer scholarship.

Congrats! And thanks for sharing the stats. Those are solid. But, do you think she would have been admitted without the soccer? Or did soccer put her over the top? She must be very talented at it! Which league did the play in?

[Anonymous]

Football they will move mountains if you're a big time recruit.

My classmate got into Berkeley and had a 800 sat and 2.5 GPA. Didn't even finish algebra 1 by the time he signed his intent letter. He did however have major talent and became a professional athlete after his time at Cal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD...4.0 GPA (Literally like everyone else), 24 ACT score. Admitted to Duke with 70% soccer scholarship.

Congrats! And thanks for sharing the stats. Those are solid. But, do you think she would have been admitted without the soccer? Or did soccer put her over the top? She must be very talented at it! Which league did the play in?

There is no way she would have been admitted to Duke without soccer. She had no other EC's except soccer related. She was on youth national teams - but most of the D1 kids have at least been invited to a camp. She had offers from Clemson, Duke, Tech, and a few others. She played on a Virginia based club team.

[Anonymous]

My daughter received her acceptance letter to a D1 school before she finished her application. She plays tennis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can see that at an MIT - not really an athletic powerhouse, but Stanford? D1 schools? Interesting.

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).

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, I know a recruited athlete at Yale who got a 1300 on their SATs, the mom told me herself.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a B student and a D3 level athlete. We stopped thinking about it as “where can his sport get him in” and more like “where is the sweet spot where his grades are in-range, the coach wants him, and he feels at home on campus.”

It was super clarifying. Schools got tossed from the pile if there was no chance he’d get in on his academic merit, the coach didn’t respond to emails/texts, or if a campus visit left him feeling “meh.” It also brought to the fore some schools we had never heard of but were lovely.

[Anonymous]

Power 4 revenue sports are all transfer portal now except 1-2 kids per year as stud freshmen. Recruiting at D3 helps below the NESCAC level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see that at an MIT - not really an athletic powerhouse, but Stanford? D1 schools? Interesting.

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).

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, I know a recruited athlete at Yale who got a 1300 on their SATs, the mom told me herself.

I know one who made 1120
But it was 25 years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter received her acceptance letter to a D1 school before she finished her application. She plays tennis.

What school

[Anonymous]

College Confidential has an athletic recruit section. You will receive more information if you post the sport and gender and gpa + SAT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see that at an MIT - not really an athletic powerhouse, but Stanford? D1 schools? Interesting.

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).

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, I know a recruited athlete at Yale who got a 1300 on their SATs, the mom told me herself.

Yes, ok. Notice how I said “might be 1400” because it varies based on the sport and the individual athlete. 1300 would be well within the AI for a high recruit if the gpa is decent.

[Anonymous]

So yes, OP. A recruited athlete may be well within a school’s academic profile but many of them are, as you say, “off.” And for those within the profile, the recruited athlete will get in before another student with comparable stats who is not recruited. It’s a huge bump.

The ones I like are the ones who use the hook with every intention of dropping the sport after their first season. All within the rules but so very calculating.