How do you get recruited as an athlete to an Ivy League?

[Anonymous]

Many moons ago, I was recruited to play baseball at a couple Ivy League schools. I played in a summer league in between my junior and senior year and met a couple coaches with connections to the Ivy League. I ended up passing because the competition level was not up to snuff. I wanted to challenge myself at the highest levels of D1. I found out that I was never going to be the best player on the team. No regrets.

I have no clue how to get recruited today. However, the first requirement is to have talent in whatever sport you are playing.

[Anonymous]

Swim and track have published standards so you can compare your times to others.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

[Anonymous]

OP, many of the posters have given you good info. Compare your kid’s stats/accomplishments to those already on the roster. If your kid is at the same level, he or she needs to have good grades and pretty good scores. If your kid is, say, a literal Olympian, there’s more leeway.

But if you’re asking when your kid is late in high school, and you’re unsure, it means she probably isn’t recruit-level.

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Anonymous wrote:Send emails to coaches with video and attend their camps. Still need top academics. Went to a recent ivy camp. The head coach said the first question the admissions office asks is what is the course rigor. He said this it is incredibly important that the student is taking the most rigorous courseload to show he can play a sport and enroll in ivy classes. He said SAT/ACTs are also very important. (He seemed to imply that they are even more important than GPAs given the inability to compare among schools). A student not submitting a score is considered a negative as he has to submit an average score for the collective team.

Listen to the Yale lacrosse coach on Youtube (go search for it). He is taped giving a talk to LAX recruits and mentions that half the team has sub-1500 SAT scores, with a bunch in the 1200s, more in the 1300s and more in the 1400s...and then 50% above 1500. I believe this is Summer 2022. Said transcript is most important in terms of grades and rigor.

The specific school above is relevant. Obviously, now Dartmouth requires scores from everyone and Yale seems to be leaning that way as well.

To reiterate, the specific sport matters a ton. Also, not sure what sport you are referring, but all college camps are for the most part a way for the assistant coaches to make extra money since they are poorly paid. They need lots of kids with no hope of getting recruited to attend.

There is no point in attending any camps unless you have been specifically invited and/or will hit certain athletic marks that will get a coach's attention (and it's usually both).

1 was in the 1200s, not a bunch. 2 in the 1300s. 3 in the 1400s and the remaining 5 above a 1500.

Exactly. Coaches can’t afford to have many kids below a certain level, and the ones above 1500 help the rest of the team. I should have added above - he said to take the test as many times as possible to super score.

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Anonymous wrote:Send emails to coaches with video and attend their camps. Still need top academics. Went to a recent ivy camp. The head coach said the first question the admissions office asks is what is the course rigor. He said this it is incredibly important that the student is taking the most rigorous courseload to show he can play a sport and enroll in ivy classes. He said SAT/ACTs are also very important. (He seemed to imply that they are even more important than GPAs given the inability to compare among schools). A student not submitting a score is considered a negative as he has to submit an average score for the collective team.

Listen to the Yale lacrosse coach on Youtube (go search for it). He is taped giving a talk to LAX recruits and mentions that half the team has sub-1500 SAT scores, with a bunch in the 1200s, more in the 1300s and more in the 1400s...and then 50% above 1500. I believe this is Summer 2022. Said transcript is most important in terms of grades and rigor.

The specific school above is relevant. Obviously, now Dartmouth requires scores from everyone and Yale seems to be leaning that way as well.

To reiterate, the specific sport matters a ton. Also, not sure what sport you are referring, but all college camps are for the most part a way for the assistant coaches to make extra money since they are poorly paid. They need lots of kids with no hope of getting recruited to attend.

There is no point in attending any camps unless you have been specifically invited and/or will hit certain athletic marks that will get a coach's attention (and it's usually both).

1 was in the 1200s, not a bunch. 2 in the 1300s. 3 in the 1400s and the remaining 5 above a 1500.

Exactly. Coaches can’t afford to have many kids below a certain level, and the ones above 1500 help the rest of the team. I should have added above - he said to take the test as many times as possible to super score.

Or put another way…they care about the average for the team. If the three best LAX players in the country all scored a 1250 and wanted to play for Yale, they would take them all and just balance with more kids in the high 1400s and 1500s and none in the 1300s.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

My DS was a college athlete. He would never had referred to a teammate that way. Plus, the child took an AP class, they are hardly “dumb as dirt”.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

My DS was a college athlete. He would never had referred to a teammate that way. Plus, the child took an AP class, they are hardly “dumb as dirt”.

You really think your DS never said anything close to that? Ever? To an opponent or about an opponent? Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

My DS was a college athlete. He would never had referred to a teammate that way. Plus, the child took an AP class, they are hardly “dumb as dirt”.

You really think your DS never said anything close to that? Ever? To an opponent or about an opponent? Give me a break.

Referred to someone who took AP classes dumb as dirt? Yes, I am sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

You are obviously a delightful person who brings joy and happiness to all those around you.

[Anonymous]

A senior in my neighborhood was recruited for lacrosse. She’s smart, but not top of the class. She’s also class president. She’s an extremely nice person from a great family. No legacy for the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

My DS was a college athlete. He would never had referred to a teammate that way. Plus, the child took an AP class, they are hardly “dumb as dirt”.

You really think your DS never said anything close to that? Ever? To an opponent or about an opponent? Give me a break.

Referred to someone who took AP classes dumb as dirt? Yes, I am sure.

BS. And you're on the side of people calling another child an "@$$hole". Yes, I'm sure your child's virgin ears have never heard such an insult as "dumb as dirt".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the sport. DD is an athletic recruit to an Ivy next year. She said one of her future teammates is dumb as dirt. She's only taken 1 AP her entire HS career and highest math was pre-calc. Sooo, if they are talented athletes the Ivy will exceptions with grades.

What a lovely child you’ve raised. 😒

Yeah, I’d rather my child be “dumb as dirt” then an a$$hole like yours!

Spare us the sanctimony. If we're talking about athletes they've all said far worse about each other in competitions. They aren't nearly as thin skinned as some of the pearl clutchers on here crying about this weak insult.

You are obviously a delightful person who brings joy and happiness to all those around you.

Says another adult proudly calling a kid an @$$. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a senior and is done. At least for our sport I like the process to a giant game of pinball, where you bounce around, and it’s hard to see where you will end up. And strange things can happen both good and bad.

My standard advice is to check the roster, and if your child is in the realm send a resume of results (with GPA and test scores) and letter to the coaches of the teams of interest. No real harm, and then you’ll know one way or the other.

If you aren’t on track already, likelihood probably low, but why not.