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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College placements at both these schools have been significantly influenced by their top flight lacrosse programs.

[b]Many of the boys that go to Ivies and other top schools gained admission to these schools through the Athletic Department putting its thumb on the Admissions scales[/b].[/quote]

What a ridiculous statement.  You clearly have no child who is an athlete and also a student at an Ivy.  We have three.  All three had to make their scores and those base scores were clearly defined by the coaches recruiting them.  FWIW all three of our scholar athletes had SAT scores of 2100+, and two or more subject tests with 700+ scores.  None of the Ivies will admit students who don't meet their score requirements and, if you say otherwise, then prove it.[/quote]

You are confused. You are confusing admissions under the Ivy Academic Index (AI) provisions with the admissions process for the test of the students.

The existence of the Ivy League Academic Index is the proof. It exists so Ivies can recruit players that would not gain admissions under the regular Admissions program.

Many athletes I have seen go to Ivy League schools were completely average student in high school and ranked barely in the upper 50% of their class.

Coaches, of course, can only gain admission for limited number of athletes in each of the lower AI bands.

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Are these very smart kids who can hack it once they get there -- sure.  2100 is a great SAT score, but average for an Ivy, and the point is that otherwise similar kids with those scores -- and much higher -- are rejected by the thousands.  The sports hook is the difference.  Different standards for admission.  [/quote]

The combination of the scores and the athletic prowess speak to a multidimensionality that the other students don't have or they would have been accepted.  You show your bias and your lack of knowledge about multidimensional scholar athletes when you assume that an athlete with a 2100+ won't be able to 'hack' the same course of studies that a non-athlete with a 2100+ will undertake.  In any event, good luck to you and your child.  It sounds like you will need it.[/quote]

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