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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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).[/quote]

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

That is 6 spots that didn't go to academic superstars, as if sports are important to Yale's reputation. So weird.[/quote]

Amazing isn’t it?  And that’s 6 spots out of less than 2000 for just one sport.  [/quote]

Can you all not understand that people are born with a varying level of strengths and attributes?? Some have incredibly high intellect, while many more, of course, have average intellect. Fortunately, our society allows people of all levels and types of intellect, who are also blessed with hard word ethic in addition to other characteristics, including the ability to learn, to have the same opportunities as those who were fortunate enough to be born highly intelligent. I see nothing wrong with that. [/quote]
+1. Intellectual ability can be a form of privilege that some believe makes you "better than" others.

Of course, athletic ability can be the same, but DCUM places innate athletic ability below innate intelligence ability. Or, DCUM refuses to accept that the two abilities can sometimes go hand in hand.

If the school wants to field a successful team, though, it is within its right to select student athletes to do so. It does not have to accept students solely based on a hierarchy of test scores.[/quote]

Sure.  But why athletic ability?   If you were a world class cello player, you might be able to go to a music focused elite school like Julliard with less than perfect grades.  But you wouldn’t make it past the door at the Ivy.  But you could if you play lacrosse.  How does that make any sense?  It’s not that schools are looking for a variety of talents.  I think that is great.  But that they lower academic standards for sports talent only.  Just seems bizarre.  But, my kid is not Ivy bound either on their academic or sports ability so I guess it’s not relevant to me.  [/quote]

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