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[quote=Anonymous]Many people here complain that legacy kids and athletic recruits have unfair advantage in admissions. It's well known legacy kids have higher acceptance rates, but aren't they usually competitive applicants?
Why don't Ivy league schools just disclose the average grade and SAT scores of legacy and other applicants and show that legacy kids have higher (or equal) stats?

Here is an interesting article about Ivy athletic recruit from NY times from a while ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/sports/before-athletic-recruiting-in-the-ivy-league-some-math.html
Athletic recruits are not the only kids who spend significant hours for sports and other extracurricular activities.  Kids with state or national level music or other extracurricular activities spend similar amount of time for these activities as athletes but they generally have much better stats.  Is it that hard to recruit athletes with reasonable SAT (say, above 1400) and competitive athletic level? I understand that it might be tough for football or basketball, but for other sports, don't they have enough kids who meet both these academic and athletic threshold?
I also wonder if most Ivy league athletes already have competitive SAT (&gt;1400) and grades (&gt;3.7-3.8?), but people assume that athletes have lower stats based on some kids that they know.  What would be the academic threshold for Ivy athletic recruits that people in general wound agree that it is reasonable?

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