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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Son is a HS senior and highly recruited athlete with good, not great grade.  He is being heavily recruited by a couple of Ivy schools.   Son is good but not pro material.  Our family can afford the tuition without assistance.  Son realizes that it will be impossible for him to handle both academic and athletic at school because he is already having a hard time for the past two years.

He is thinking of accepting one of the Ivy offers and when he starts his freshman year there, just quit the team so that he can focus only on academic.  Can he be kicked out of school for doing this?[/quote]

How is he doing this?  Most Ivies have very high requirements for SAT scores and grades for all students, including their recruited athletes, musicians, etc.  I honestly think this is a troll post because frankly I don't see any of the cue words (that I'm not giving here) that would indicate this is a valid post.  Name the sport and the Ivy for your supposed SENIOR son!!![/quote]

I think you are correct and I should have caught that.[/quote]

I kind of thought it was a troll as well but intrigued to see the responses.[/quote]

This shows u know very little of athletic recruiting at ivies. There is something called academic index. If u go to a HS and take the easiest classes, your GPA will be high and can meet min AI. U have athletes that are bench athletes that have high scores and those who meet minimal or just below AI. I know of Yale recruited athletes that were tutored in basic math over the summer before starting freshman year as their Math score of the SAT was around 600.  I know of ice hockey recruits being offered spots at ivies if they could just get 1300 (out of the 2400 score). There is a lot going on that the average joe is not aware of.[/quote]

I call BS.  There is NO Ivy that would accept a 1300 total score out of 2400 for ice hockey … or football or basketball for that matter.  And a 600 math score is still an acceptable score if the other score/s (depending on the SAT year for 1600 or 2400) are high enough.

I am not an average Joe.  We currently have 3 recruited students attending Ivies so my wife and I are very well acquainted with the process.

You are correct that coaches and departments watch recruitment scores very carefully.  Two of our kids were asked to retest in Jan/Feb I believe, in other words [i]after acceptance [/i], because even going from a 2180 to a 2200, as a real example, would give the team or department a boost on the index.  It was NBD, our kids did it happily, and indeed their higher scores (by 20 or 35 points) resulted in benefits for their respective schools/teams/departments.

I do stipulate that the OP is trolling.  I don't see any of the indicators in terminology showing legitimacy.  I think it is some dodo (or their parent) who isn't multi-dimensional and has a grudge against scholar athletes, falsely believing that scholar athletes are the reason why they aren't getting into the school they want.[/quote]

It is not BS. The example above is for NHL caliber kids. I have ivies recruited kids also and they attended a private that send over 25% just to ivies and most are due to being recruited. So we know the game very well.[/quote]

What privates sends more than 25% of its class to just the seven Ivy schools? [/quote]

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