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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]

This is correct. My DC was a recruited athlete at Yale, nationally ranked in their sport and a National Merit Scholar. Several of DC’s teammates has similar test scores, and these kids pulled in a couple of kids with lower scores for AI purposes. For helmet sports like football/lacrosse, there tends to be a greater discrepancy between top and bottom academic resumes, but there is a minimum index number for every athlete and an average that must be met by each team. A kid with a 19 ACT would be a very big exception and would need an extremely high GPA to balance the test score.[/quote]

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