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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins is much more lax with their D1 lax admissions standard than their standards for D3 sports.

The bigger the stage in the sport, the more relaxed the standard tends to be. On the high academic side, that translates to power 5 schools like Stanford, Northwestern, Vandy, and Duke having more admissions flexibility than the athletically less competitive Ivy League schools, which have more flexibility than the D3 schools like MIT, Chicago, Wash U, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, most of Hopkins, ect. [/quote]
For non revenue sports, Stanford has a higher minimum score threshold than the Ivy League. No index though, so you could have a team with lots of kids who scored in the 1300-1350 range, where Ivy teams will have a handful who scored in the 1200-1250 range and the majority much higher. [/quote]

This is incorrect for almost all non-revenue sports. I was on the Stanford campus for much of the last decade and am familiar with their athletic dept. It is true that there are a few sports, like squash and sailing to name a couple, where most of the student-athletes at the very highest level sport wise are already scoring well above 1300, so they are not seeing a dip at Stanford. In those few sports, Stanford's teams are as strong academically as the Ivy League or even the high-academic D3s, but that is the limited exception and not the rule. If someone is a rockstar in a sport but has much lower academic profile though, Stanford could get them in while the Ivy coach would be out of luck. [/quote]
Have seen just the opposite over the last few years with several rockstar kids playing non-revenue team sports. Stanford coaches could not guarantee admission, and they ended up at Ivies. We also know of a couple cases where the Stanford coaches told recruits that admission was likely but in the end the kid got a thumbs down.  The nice thing about Stanford recruitment is that you send in your application over the summer and hear back in August or September, so there is time to figure out another good option.  I’m certainly not disputing that there are plenty of kids on all Stanford teams that have impeccable academic records. [/quote]

What sports are these? Why would they end up at Ivy League schools if they are rockstar athletes outside of the country club like sports (the ones only rich kids play at scale)? 
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