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It’s well known that academic standards are lower for athletes.   I can’t believe someone is trying to argue this isn’t the case, might as well argue the earth isn’t round.  Of course, some athletic admits might meet normal admission standards.[/quote]

My kids have gone to a "big3" in DC. Between their two grades and various team mates of various sports, I can pretty much attest that to an applicant, every one these kids are as academically qualified as any "regular" academic student, the only difference being they are bringing a sport to the table as an applicant. Obviously there is the rare Allen Iverson, but you are kidding yourself if you think all of the athletes admitted, particularly to D3 and IVY schools are dumb jock not worthy of the academic slot.[/quote]
The minimum thresholds required for admission as a recruited athlete are definitely lower at elite schools, though they don’t apply to whole teams worth of kids for the most part. My kid was recruited by Ivies and Ivy equivalents for a non-revenue sport and was told that given he had perfect grades, a SAT score ranging by school from 1200 to 1300 should do the trick if he continued taking a rigorous course load. Some of his less heavily recruited friends were told that they needed 1450+ and to take additional APs to even have a chance, but no guarantees. For this sport, most coaches seemed to only have the ability to confidently say they could get 2 or 3 kids in per class, and the rest who got in had to take their chances with admissions like any other applicant.  Of course, many of the kids in that group of 2-3 had scores and grades that exceeded the minimum thresholds.

Parents who are bitter about the athletic recruitment hook like to assume that their kids are academically superior to all the athletes (and they usually feel this way about kids with any other kind of hook too), but anyone objective knows this is ridiculous.

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