Ivy Athletic Recruiting Success Stories--Share What it Takes To Make It

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Anonymous wrote:Internationally ranked in badminton.

HYP admit.

That's awesome! They're probably hoping for an olympic medal to add to their collection.

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Anonymous wrote:2 recruits for the same team at the same school will have different results based on where they fall on the recruiting scale. The #1 recruit can look quite different than the last recruit.

Obviously, revenue sport recruits in basketball and football also will look much different than a track recruit.

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Football and basketball are also often more likely to have kids who are also hooked in other ways than the non-revenue sports. For example, also FGLI and URM.

Football is also unique in that occasionally you can get a viable multi sport recruit, like football plus track (sprints or throwing).

True…but even Ivy schools know the only sports that attract any student fan interest and continued general alumni interest are football and basketball..so they care more about winning in those sports.

Basketball actually isn’t that big at Ivies (NIL is huge for basketball) but depending on school, lacrosse and hockey are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Track recruit
Top in state and nationally ranked in two events
Was told 1100 was minimum SAT score (got higher) from two Ivies
4.3 W GPA
Issue was no money- and doesn’t qualify for need based aid.
Deciding between Ivy and other highly ranked schools that offer good money (top state schools, schools in top 30)

Know quite a few lacrosse and swim commits who were told 1350 for high academic D1 and P/Y/H.

[Anonymous]

Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

PP. Average SAT scores of recruited athletes at H is getting closer to non-athletes.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/5/freshman-survey-2028-academics/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

PP. Average SAT scores of recruited athletes at H is getting closer to non-athletes.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/5/freshman-survey-2028-academics/

Self reported survey. Take with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Track recruit
Top in state and nationally ranked in two events
Was told 1100 was minimum SAT score (got higher) from two Ivies
4.3 W GPA
Issue was no money- and doesn’t qualify for need based aid.
Deciding between Ivy and other highly ranked schools that offer good money (top state schools, schools in top 30)

Know quite a few lacrosse and swim commits who were told 1350 for high academic D1 and P/Y/H.

Yes. Believable. Lacrosse is a "band" sport. Similar to Football for recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

OP here. That's awesome. Congrats to your kid. Hard Work

Obviously all these kids also have great community service. The point of this thread was to demonstrate to the green-eyed strivers that the athletes at these schools are amazing. I have never been more impressed than when I have visited the other Ivies. The athletes are polite, they are dressed neatly, they behave well and they are always the most friendly people on campus to visiting families. Great community.

Incidentally, at my kid's school, the professors seem to love all the athletes. Some of the NARPs (Non-Athlete Regular Person) can be a little rude, but the professors and the administrators seem to geniunely admire the athletes.

[Anonymous]

It seems that the point of this thread is to convince people on this forum that athletes have to meet similar admissions standards to non-athletes and that is just not the case. What matters is
1. your athletic ability (however the coach of your sport is defining that)
2. GPA and SAT, inversely correlated to your athletic ability (i.e. better athletic ability means lower GPA/SAT requirement).
This is it. This is the entire formula and anyone who has gone through the process knows it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the point of this thread is to convince people on this forum that athletes have to meet similar admissions standards to non-athletes and that is just not the case. What matters is
1. your athletic ability (however the coach of your sport is defining that)
2. GPA and SAT, inversely correlated to your athletic ability (i.e. better athletic ability means lower GPA/SAT requirement).
This is it. This is the entire formula and anyone who has gone through the process knows it.

Robotic. All of the information that detailed how the different sports stratify athletic achievement vs. Academic Index. All of the stories, the articles, the data showing athletes outperform the robot test takers in life. All of that info, and you are crying in your starbucks because your 1550 SAT kid got rejected from Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

PP. Average SAT scores of recruited athletes at H is getting closer to non-athletes.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/5/freshman-survey-2028-academics/

Self reported survey. Take with a grain of salt.

Ignore this poster. Obviously clueless how The Crimson collects freshman data annually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the point of this thread is to convince people on this forum that athletes have to meet similar admissions standards to non-athletes and that is just not the case. What matters is
1. your athletic ability (however the coach of your sport is defining that)
2. GPA and SAT, inversely correlated to your athletic ability (i.e. better athletic ability means lower GPA/SAT requirement).
This is it. This is the entire formula and anyone who has gone through the process knows it.

Some have to meet the same stats, some don’t. It’s that simple. The 1350 that I’ve seen mentioned earlier is about right for a top recruit. For a lower level recruit they might need to be above average since their main purpose is to raise the team AI. It’s pretty straightforward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fencing at Harvard
3.98/4.84, 1580 SAT, NMF
Public STEM Magnet, 8 AP
Strong ECs, LOR, community service
Excellent essays

OP here. That's awesome. Congrats to your kid. Hard Work

Obviously all these kids also have great community service. The point of this thread was to demonstrate to the green-eyed strivers that the athletes at these schools are amazing. I have never been more impressed than when I have visited the other Ivies. The athletes are polite, they are dressed neatly, they behave well and they are always the most friendly people on campus to visiting families. Great community.

Incidentally, at my kid's school, the professors seem to love all the athletes. Some of the NARPs (Non-Athlete Regular Person) can be a little rude, but the professors and the administrators seem to geniunely admire the athletes.

Thanks! Junior year DC signed up for campus tour and the tour guide happened to be the co-captain of the women fencing team. Had a wonderful chat that affirmed DC's choice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the point of this thread is to convince people on this forum that athletes have to meet similar admissions standards to non-athletes and that is just not the case. What matters is
1. your athletic ability (however the coach of your sport is defining that)
2. GPA and SAT, inversely correlated to your athletic ability (i.e. better athletic ability means lower GPA/SAT requirement).
This is it. This is the entire formula and anyone who has gone through the process knows it.

Some have to meet the same stats, some don’t. It’s that simple. The 1350 that I’ve seen mentioned earlier is about right for a top recruit. For a lower level recruit they might need to be above average since their main purpose is to raise the team AI. It’s pretty straightforward.

You've said the exact same thing. Your comment added nothing.

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This is crazy, my kid answered 2 more questions on each of the SAT sections (superscore). They guessed on the two questions, based on the elimination method that our SAT tutor gave them. It took them 4 tries, but they got the 1550.

It is outrageous that a world class swimmer with a 1480 would be given preference over my kid. Hours of SAT prep and the grit required to re-take the SAT until the superscore hits 1550 (guesses, no guesses, whatever) is the same skillset as the swimmer.