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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why so many make the assumption that recruited athletes have lower scores? Sure, maybe somewhere like Ohio State, they will take someone who passed the Clearinghouse for the football team, but that isn't the norm.[/quote] The Ivy League has an academic index that mandates that the average Academic Index for recruited athletes cannot be more than one standard deviation below the index of the previous four freshmen classes. The fact that this exists seems to be strong circumstantial evidence that they have lower scores and that coaches, if allowed, would get athletes with even lower scores. More concretely, at Harvard, the data has shown that recruited athletes with an academic rating of 4 (on a 1 to 6 scale) had an acceptance rate of 70.46 percent, nearly a thousand times greater than the 0.076 percent admit rate for non-athletes with the same academic rating. [/quote]
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