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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjMrRUM2/

What do yall think? [/quote]

My son was invited to Yale for an official visit with the rowing team last fall. His 2k time was just shy of recruitable and he was captain/MVP, BUT they wanted them because of his academics. He had a 1560 SAT, 4.0, 4.6 weighted with 14 APs (8 fives on the tests he had taken at the time) and was a merit scholar. The dirty secret is that the teams have an academic index (AI) and they have to maintain it. So what happens is they can let in kids with lower stats, but they have to be balanced by academic athletes. This was the case for my son, but after the visit realized that he had no interest in rowing at the D1 level (20 hour a week+ commitment and he was honestly worried about prioritizing it over academics). [/quote]

Yes - they are balancing kids who have SAT's in the 1000 level. I know a few.[/quote]

The recent ivy athletes from our private have 1180, 1220, 1280. Their majors are interesting to say the least. No physics or engineers among them that is for sure. They are there for the athletic skill and get balanced by not-quite-top but good enough 1480-1500 white rich boarding school kids. [/quote]

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