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[quote=Anonymous]My son was recruited to an Ivy to play football.  He’s no dope but never would have been a candidate for admission without a he athletics hook.

You need to educate yourself on two things.  First the nature of Ivy need-based financial aid.  As referenced earlier, the formulas may be generous, but not so much for upper middle class types living in high cost of living areas such as the DMV.  Also the richest schools - HYP - give more, but you may be able to leverage an offer from them to get more $$ from a place like Dartmouth.  I’ve always wondered if one can do the same with an offer from smaller rich schools like Amherst.

Second, the Academic Index.  Pretty simple to look this up so I won’t get into details.  They take grades, class rank and board scores and feed it into some sort of flux capacitor to generate a score 1-4 that shows how close the recruit is to the median student.  Football is separate from the other sports and non-football recruits need to understand that each school will have a different approach to how they allocate slots among various sports.[/quote]

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