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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes - that is the Ivy “Academic Index” - but I’m not referring to that. At some non-Ivy schools, coaches are expected to hit targets for team grad rate and GPA, so some coaches will look to have some players who are GPA boosters to counterbalance talented players who are not academically focused.[/quote]

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