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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last post is such a misrpresentation, that it is pathetic.

Yes, the Ivies let in athletes with lower academic qualifications than other students.  But the difference is not nearly as great as the post would let you believe.  They are very close in qualifcation, albeit lower.  There is a floor at an individual student level athlete, not an index that gets applied across the entire pool.  Rest assured that student athletes at the Ivies are very smart.  They are simply not going to take kids who can't do the work.

If this were true, then the best lacrosse players would be going to the Ivies, instead of the ACC.  They are not.  The difference between the Ivies and the ACC in lax athletic quality is widening.  The Ivies are very good in lax, but they haven't had a national champion in over 10 years.
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The biggest reason the Ivies can't recruit as well as schools like Hopkins, Syracuse, UVA, etc. is that they can't give athletic scholarships (though they can find ways around this at times).  If they could, the gap would be much narrower.  And it's not a zero sum game - Cornell in recent memory has been a national contender.  Princeton has won it all six times.

The previous poster was right about the API.  It was created to prevent an Ivy from admitting a student woefully inferior to the rest of the student population.  There are plenty of lax players (and other athletes) who would NEVER even be considered for admission if not for their athletic prowess.  There is most certainly an index that spans the entire recruiting class for every Ivy sport.[/quote]

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