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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder what the academic requirements are at places like Duke and Notre Dame (and UVA and Hopkins) for laxers.  These kids are committing as 15 years olds without any PSAT's or even many high school grades.  When these schools sign these kids, do they care about academics at all?  Do these kids have to keep grades up?  It's pretty obvious in the Ivies that they do, but at these other "highly academic" schools, I wonder.[/quote]

The good hockey players at my Ivy had horrible board scores -- a group of players roomed together and called their room "The Thousand Club" because all had below 1000 on their combined SAT Math/Verbal. Maybe they had good high school grades -- I assume maybe they did because they had to have something -- but they were highly non-academically oriented once at college.  They all got through (and many are now highly successful businesspeople, judging from reunions).

My point is that lowering admissions standards isn't new -- even the tippy top academic institutions do it, they just pick their spots (Ivy League ice hockey vs. SEC football).  Once you're in one of these very selective colleges, it is not hard to stay above water if you go to class (or get someone's notes), turn in written work, and show up for your exams.  Remember that Duke has basketball, Notre Dame has basketball/football, UVA has ACC basketball -- they all are set up to make accommodations for athletes that by and large probably haven't had the same academic opportunities your average lacrosse player has.  Hopkins isn't a big time athletic school in anything but men's lax, but they take the Harvard/Yale ice-hockey approach to their lax program and make it work.

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