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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. There is "in addition" to academic merit, and there is "in place of". Athletes recruited by the Ivies need a minimum of a "B-" GPA according to an agreement signed by all the Ivy schools. Try getting in to an Ivy on merit alone with a GPA of B-. The SAT scores of recruited athletes also have a minimum that are hundreds of points lower than a true merit admission. Legacies do not have the same academic records often times - though there are some like my child who probably would have gotten in on his own. Why take the chance though! And plenty of check-the-box applicants who are held to different standards. See the lawsuit against Harvard for that discussion. So I wouldn't jump all over PP for not saying "in addition to" academic merit. That just simply isn't true in a lot of cases. If you can't admit that, then you don't live in the real world. [/quote]

Wow are your facts wrong!  Parent of a recruited athlete to Yale here.  You should do some research on how the Academic Index works before commenting.  The ignorance of your comments is astounding.[/quote]

Actually, this post is pretty darn accurate for Brown and Penn, since I had two sons recruited for different sports at both. Actually, the Washington Post published a lot of these same guidelines a few weeks ago. I remember the SAT minimums being under 2000 and one of my sons told he had to keep his GPA to a B- to get recruited to Penn. Hard to believe that Yale would do things radically different. But there's no doubt that athletes in demand do not need to be on par merit-wise with regular applicants.[/quote]

I think there could be a difference.  Yale is in an altogether different league than Penn.[/quote]

Haha. Actually since we are talking about sports here technically Yale is in exactly the same league as Penn. The Ivy League. [/quote]

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