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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]test optional does not exist for athletes in any T25

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I'm pretty confident Duke basketball players aren't expected to score a 1350. Or football players at Michigan or Notre Dame.

For the D1 T25 schools that choose to field competitive teams in basketball and football, there will be some flexibility. But it's a balance. It's a small group of athletes in basketball and football that can handle the classwork at Duke, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, USC, Rice, Berkeley, and Michigan. And all those schools are competing for the same limited pool of academically competent athletes. There is a lot of money involved in these sports.

But it is sport dependent. Harvard always has a good hockey team. And those hockey players will have a different academic threshold than a regular applicant. They are not all scoring 1350 and above. But they do need to demonstrate they are not going to flunk out.

These are the revenue and prestige sports. So those applicants are in a different pile. But I can guarantee that the middle distance runners at T25 schools are all scoring above the 95 percentile on standardized tests. [/quote]

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