Is it harder to get a 1500+ on the SAT or pass tryouts for a varsity sports team?
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Anonymous
Look at your school's naviance. This underlined part is not rooted in reality. |
Anonymous
| Langley does not have 100+ students with a 1500+ on the SAT |
Anonymous
And it has many more than 100 playing on a varsity sports team. |
Anonymous
| You have posted 20 times in 10 minutes. Relax your nerd will get into UMD |
Anonymous
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All the kids I know who got into an Ivy league b/c of high grades along with a top sport were financially supported by their parents (i.e., travel soccer, travel baseball, swimming, tennis, golf, volley ball). None of that would have been possible without tons of extra money and lots of hours spent by parents driving kids and getting them extra lessons with coaches, etc.
Getting a 1500 is a lot easier. The tests have become much easier, you can prep for it, and even w/o parents shelling out for a prep class there are plenty of free online resources. Back when I took the SATs, I practiced with the 10 actual SATs the week before, and got 98% (one and done). |
Anonymous
No, getting a 1500 is not much easier. |
Anonymous
I ask the same question all the time, when my brainy kid brings home his standardized testing showing 99th percentile across the board every time and he asks me, how come they're instructed to keep their test scores a secret from other students and not to discuss them or brag about them, but there is a giant sign outside the gym that kids can sign their name on if they climb the rope to the top? And the person with the most tallys by their name gets a prize at the end of the month? |
Anonymous
| It depends on the sport and school. |
Anonymous
I agree scholarships for music or theater are really hard to come by. Most of my high school friends were non-athletes and they were by large talented in these endeavors. I did meet both criteria set forth by the OP. I was All-State on track as a 9th grader (a hefty 105 pounds) so making varsity was not difficult. I ended up winning a national prep championship in my senior year. Notwithstanding, obtaining high grades and a SAT score was harder for me than athletics. Statistically this doesn’t make sense but I came from a single mother home with dysfunction and addiction. My high school years were by and large fun, so I wasn’t a victim in any sense. But I was immature with lousy organization and study habits. My high school was excellent with teachers who went the extra mile, and they weren’t afraid of correcting me. I needed it. I won a race in my AP English teacher’s neighborhood. I was spiked and bleeding a bit, and I walked over to his house, bleeding a bit on his kitchen floor, as he spent an hour discussing college and the need to rid of the “wing it” attitude. He knew zero about sports but cared about me. Who gets this in this life? I was recruited by major sports schools - the usual suspects - but the decision came down to which school could get me into small classes as soon as possible. Just learning to obtain competitive study habits without the favoritism that obtains for athletes (it is real) was an enormous struggle. I used to think it was absurd to have the school pay for all my education because I ran track, but I needed it. And the decision to invest in a marginal sport like track was a risky one too. It all worked out well. Luck, and more luck, really. |
Anonymous
It is definitely easier than getting accepted into an Ivy with a sport are you high? |
Anonymous
So now you are parsing things? It went from "its much easier to get a 1500 on an SAT than to make a varsity sport" to "its much easier to get a 1500 on the SAT than to get recruited for a D1 sport" When those were proven wrong you are moving to " it's easier to get a 1500 on the SAT than to get accepted into an ivy with a sport" It's quite comical to see the way the argument evolved, lol. Ivy sports aren't that strong except perhaps crew, so it is probably easier to get recruited for an ivy sport than just about any other college sports league. |
Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
| This question is kind of incoherent, but my guess is that at almost every school, there are a lot more kids who are varsity players than get higher than 1500 on the SAT. I’m not sure how many subs get carried on HS soccer or lax teams, but I would assume most schools have about a hundred varsity athletes (combining boys and girls and focusing on team sports like soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, and field hockey) and a lot fewer than that get 1500s. |
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1. Making a varsity high school team — easier than a 1500 SAT.
2. Getting a 1500 SAT — harder than most school athletics achievements. 3. Becoming a D1 athlete — harder than getting a 1500 SAT. |