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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] The point is - if there weren't athletes their academic grades and scores would not get them in.[/quote]

The point is, this is generally wrong.  At Ivies, all teams have Academic Index requirements.  Research it.  There may be a couple kids on the low end of the general student distribution, but then those are balanced by kids at the extreme high end.  Way too many people commenting on this thread who have no actual knowledge of the rules and what actually happens.[/quote]

It is not wrong. A kid I know was offered a spot at Columbia, Vanderbilt and Wesleyan without applying. NO application has been filled out. He’s taken the SAT three times and his super score is not even over 1000. He’s at a small public school with As, Bs and Cs. He hasn’t filled out a single college application yet. Zero. No common app. Nothing. He has taken a sprinkling of honors classes, zero AP classes. He’s played football all four years. Zero other activities. [/quote]

Let me add he’s been accepted the several others but I listed the best ones. [/quote]

But he has filled out “applications” they are just different. He had to email coaches, do on site interviews on sidelines, go to camps, have his coach call coaches, etc.

I call BS on “taking the test 3 times” why would he if he is already in by your own post. I don’t know 1 recruited athlete that takes it a bunch of times. [/quote]

Your BS meter is off. He’s taken it 3x because he wants to get into one school that he’s not in yet…and over a 1300 would make a big difference.

Please stop saying these athletes have filled out applications but in a different way. They have not filled out the admissions applications that are required of everyone else, where all stats are considered. Just admit that the title to this post is correct and they certainly don’t look at the whole person when looking at an athlete.  [/quote]

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