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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me join the conversation as someone who actually has a clue.

In order to understand how athletic recruitment and admissions to the Ivies for athletes you have to understand the Ivy League "Academic Index".

It is a system that assigns index numbers to potential recruits based on their SAT scores and their class rank. GPA's are not included and have no weight. Only the SAT scores and the Class Rank percentile are considered.

The universities must balance their entire incoming class of athletes against the Academic Index. And to make it even more complicated, the Academic Index distribution varies by university such that Penn, for example, can admit more athletes in the lowest Academic Index band than can Harvard.

If you want to understand the Academic Index, you can look it up on the Internet. Or you can blather on about that which you have little understanding.[/quote]

You're spot on.  I know an athlete who was accepted at Penn with extremely low SAT scores. [/quote]

Which sport, and does the sport make a difference?[/quote]

Sport does make a difference.

Since the entire athletic department must meet the overall requirement of the Academic Index, the school will most frequently use its lower tier spots in the sports it cares most about. And usually that is football, and men's basketball and lacrosse. I have seen some really surprising acceptances of recruited mens lacrosse players and football players.

If they bring in a high SAT, high class rank swimmer, that frees up a spot for a football player with a lower academic index score.

You have to understand the academic index. The schools can't go below a certain level and they have to average a certain score.

As I recall, the lowest Academic Index band requires a 1200 SAT and a class rank in the 50th percentile. But the don't get a lot of these lowest band spots to hand out.

There isn't any weighting of schools. That is, a student in the 50th percentile from St Albans is the same as a student in the 50th percentile from Anacostia High.

Class is out. If you want to understand how it works, do the research and reading.[/quote]

Don't forget ice hockey -- at the Ivies that really care about competing at a national level in ice hockey (basically Harvard, Yale, and Cornell), the ice hockey team often had the lowest academic index on campus.[/quote]

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