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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is just begining to think about playing in college - D3. I know there are GPA/SAT/ACT standards that athletes must meet for acceptance to the university, but do they tend to be lower than for non-athletes? [/quote] At D1 in general - yes. At ivy leagues - yes, but limited. At D3 not quite so much. The main benefit at D3 is surety of your offer. In other words let's say the average GPA/SAT at your school of choice is 4.3/1430 - without soccer you might only have a 25% chance of getting in with those grades, but with soccer offer you will have 100% chance. My DS currently has an offer from a D3 school. They asked him to name his major, and told him that for one major (one this school is ranked very highly for) he would still need a 1570 SAT even with the soccer offer. He's retaking his SAT :-).[/quote] For D1, in general, it may/can be lower, but some of the top programs (eg ACC) do look for kids who can help boost the team/program GPA.[/quote] In my experience it was really only the Ivies that worry about the team average do this. The Ivies have a required team average academic score for their recrutiing class which varies from school to school (Yale was the highest, and I think Cornell the lowest) - this didn't seem to be the case anywhere else.[/quote]
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