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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended an Ivy (though not Harvard) and counted plenty of athletes among my friends.  I assure you that the overwhelming majority of them were phenomenal students in addition to being talented athletes.  Outside of luring some top football and basketball recruits, top colleges do not generally have to lower their admission standards much, if at all, to bring in athletes.[/quote]

I also went to an Ivy and had a number of athlete friends.  I don't know how to judge "phenomenal students"...the athletes I knew majored in something that I will say was less than rigorous and did fine.   Admission standards were definitely lowered quite a bit.  You need to check your research...I believe the average SAT of the Harvard football team is maybe 200 points lower than the average for the school.  Heck, 1300+ on average is still high for a football team, but certainly different than the normal applicant

On another note, all the Ivies have an Academic Index for their sports teams.  The specific Ivy sets an overall average score that they want their teams to meet and then their recruiting is done in such a way that the average for the team needs to meet the AI set by the school.  A kid I know was in the absolute right place and right time where he played on an AAU basketball team that was solid, but well known for high academic kids.  Yale basketball coach was friends with this coach and gave a panicked call...I need a kid with at least 1560 SATs ASAP in order to bring up my AI.  Coach gave the nod to this kid and he went from not even thinking of Yale (not sure why, but just wasn't on his radar) to getting accepted at Yale.  He essentially sat the bench for the most part...but he got into Yale.[/quote]

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