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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know for real (data/stats) if playing for your high school gets you into a top 10 college? I would guess you would have to be really good and get recruited or something. Just being on a team is not going to help. And realistically how many kids get recruited from one high school? 
My kids were not into sports. They were more into academics and took lots of AP’s and even classes like MV, linear algebra etc..had almost a perfect SAT (first try) but that did not get my DS into MIT or Stanford..
My conclusion is, unless you are an athletic recruit or a legacy, or URM  its mostly a crapshoot.[/quote]
Yeah ivies and Stanford hoover up all the 4.0/5.0 top scholar athletes big time. [/quote]

Stanford hoovers up top athletes period...you don't have to be a scholar athlete.  They have higher standards than NCAA minimums, but their standards are far below the average Stanford stats for non-athletes.

Even Ivy athletes in football, basketball, baseball can be hundreds of SAT points lower than the median for non-athletes.

The other thing is you don't have to do anything else except your sport, and if you get a commitment then completing the application is nothing more than an administrative exercise.  Nobody is reading it...in fact you get dedicated AO's at Stanford or Harvard reviewing what you do before you even submit it just to make sure you don't do something stupid.[/quote]

In the industry I have worked for 25 years, I frequently find out that some of my best and intelligent business partners played D1 team sport at their Ivy.

It doesn't bother me, I did club water polo and a ton of stuff in college- loved all four years, and when you ask they roll their eyes at doing the AAU or ECNL or crazy volleyball circuit for 4-6 years of K-12.   Many also only play collegiate level for 2 years and then peel out, then can do internships, study abroads, etc.

Sure maybe there are some dumb, unmotivated Ivy athletes, but don't underestimate how many there are in the other bucket. THey also showed up in business school too, even hard-working smart Olympians. [/quote]

I didn't say the Ivy athletes are dumb nor unmotivated...just that there are a fair amount with 1300 and 1400 SAT scores which are high for many athletes, but lower than the median scores at the Ivy league school.  They all usually have rigorous transcripts and good grades.

However, it is different than the athlete experience of MIT, and it is different if you play football at an Ivy vs. you run XC or you are a fencer (i.e., yes, all Ivy schools recruit football players with 1250 SAT scores, but again good transcripts...it's not even the majority of recruited football players, but they are in every recruitment year).  [/quote]

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