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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just looking to collect info, not rehash the role of athletics in higher Ed.

Which well-known schools give no edge to athletes in admissions? Thank you. [/quote]

[b]I would say that Chicago[/b], WashU and Emory [b]don’t pay much attention to athletics[/b]. Chicago was a big football school until around 1940, when it dropped football.[/quote]

The above is incorrect. Absolutely incorrect.[/quote]

This poster knows nothing about the University of Chicago.  It accepted an athlete with the score of 1200 on the SAT a few years ago.  The athlete said that himself.
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People are conflating two issues. One is help for athletes in admissions, which Chicago definitely does (they have a pretty strong D3 athletic department) versus sports mattering on campus and being a significant part of campus like (at Chicago sports are not very important on campus and are not well attended by students).

Chicago and MIT are similar in the admissions edge you gain as a recruited athlete. Sports on campus are a little more important at MIT than Chicago, though still not central to campus life.[/quote]

The Million dollar question with respect to sports and a place like Chicago/MIT is whether Sports can basically replace all or nearly all ECs.  Correct that [b]you still need high grades and high test scores[/b], but even to be a strong enough athlete to get noticed by these schools, you are likely playing your sport fairly intensively which does not allow much time for other ECs.  W[/quote]

Not really.  There are tons of recruited athletes who are also in student government or who write for the paper. Community service is expected. These kids have had busy schedules since early elementary school. The ones who are good students (i.e. the ones who will play at Chicago/MIT) have learned time management skills early on, and the difference in the amount of time that a 7th grader and a 10th playing very high level sports train is not very much. [/quote]

Apparently none of you read the post where an athlete attended University of Chicago with average GPAs and 1200 on the SAT.  You can easily google his name and watch it on youtube because that's exactly what he said.[/quote]

The kid transferred from UVA. [/quote]

It doesn't change the fact that his SAT is 1200, not good enough for Ivies but good for University of Chicago.  What does it say about the University of Chicagol?[/quote]

It says that if you have decent grades at a good school, your high school transcript and SATs stop mattering. [/quote]

Yes.  Ivys take transfers with non-ivy stats.  All they look at is how you did at your college.  I was shocked when one girl said 1350 for SATs but she was a transfer.  [/quote]

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