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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens with the Ivy's and selective D3 lax programs, where grades and sat scores actually matter.[/quote]

Well, they sort of matter. If you think that star lacrosse or football or basketball players have to have the same academic profile as the average student at Ivy League schools, you are operating under a faulty assumption. I have seen many lacrosse players recruited by Ivies and admitted, who wouldn't stand a chance to be admitted without the coaching staffs full involvement in the process.  Not a few of these instances have stunned teachers and classmates.

The Ivies use something called the "Academic Index" or AI. It allows the Athletic Department to recruit athletes with lower SATs and GPAs, but it's not a blank check. They can recruit only so many in each Academic Index band. The lower the band requirements, the fewer they can admit. But that lower band is lower than you think it is. Amherst and Williams do the same thing, but I don't believe its a Conference requirement (NESCAC)

If you have a 1250 on the SATs and a class rank in the 60th percentile of your class, you are well within the AI range. (http://home.comcast.net/~charles517/ivyai.html) The 1250 isn 't all that hard especially with a waiver allowing you to take it on an untimed basis several times with extensive coaching between the multiple attempts.

Now the tricky part is that is that the Academic Index is different for the different schools. Penn, for example, can recruit athletes that Harvard cannot because the average non-athlete scores at Harvard are higher than at Penn.

Ivy League recruiting is some of the most aggressive recruiting you'll see. Frequently helped by local DC alumni -- which is border line legal -- they put the full court press on students they think will help their program and that they think they can get past the admissions hurdle.

The schools when questioned about this say that they do the same sort of thing with musicians they need or to meet diversity goals or to satisfy various constitutencies on the campus.

So get if you want to go to an Ivy League school and want to avoid the crowd clawing their way in through studying, competiting for grades and lists of extracurricular activities, get out of the library and start throwing the lacrosse ball against a concrete wall. Since no one ever fails out of the Ivies, you can look forward to graduating with an Ivy degree even though you were mystified in many of the classes.

Want to know why so many people are involving their kids in the sport at an early age and spending big bucks for high school? It's the HOV lane to selective college admissions for the those slightly above the average in class rank.[/quote]

??? " you can look forward to an IVY League degree even if you were mystified in some of the classes" ????  Boy, this county IS in trouble......[/quote]

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