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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I don't disagree with you, but I find it hard to believe that many Ivy League athletes have academic profiles "better" than the average Ivy League admit. How do you quantify that?[/quote]

I don’t think I said “many,” but I do know some with high school stats at the upper end of the admissions data. Obviously, most kids admitted to an Ivy are high stats, but by  “better than average” I really was just referring to the 25-75% data that schools release - and I know this is only one piece of being a qualified applicant. On one of my DC’s teams, four of the seven in DC’s recruiting class were at the 75% or above for testing, two were NMSF and two were valedictorians.  All were very good athletes.  My point really was that Ivy athletes are not necessarily getting a pass academically in the admissions process.[/quote]

+1, I know several recruited athletes at Ivies:  they all had excellent academic stats in addition to their outstanding sports ability:  granted they are more in sports like cross country, squash, lacrosse, etc. not football, basketball, etc.  Pretty amazing kids in terms of excellent time management/executive functioning.[/quote]

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