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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2261896, member: 780"] You are right on one thing. Some Ivy league athletes would have been admitted even it they did not have a coach helping them by putting their thumbs on the scales at Admissions. But in sports like football, basketball and lacrosse, these are the minority. If Ivy athletes were as academically qualified as their classmates, the Ivy League would not have put all that energy into the Ivy League Academic Index (AI). It's a tiered system that has several levels below the average non-athlete admitted (based on SAT scores and class rank). (The AI is available on the Ivy League website) Now, it ought to be intuitively obvious to you that a person with perfect SATs in the Top 1% of their graduating class is going to get more out of classes than kids with quite pedestrian SAT scores who have class ranks just above average. While their brainiac classmates are burning the midnight oil and enjoining the professors in debate in class, those who were admitted in the bottom tiers of the AI are trying stay afloat academically. And because no one ever fails out of these schools anymore, its not a big problem. Now I read that study a number of years ago with interest. At the time. I had two sons who were being recruited by Ivy League schools, so I talked to many people and read everything I could. I became an Academic Index (AI) expert. Now you'll forgive me if I don't search through the web to find that study. You can believe me or not. I don't care. But the truth of it has been borne out in my own experience. I was and remain closely connected to a local prep school in DC that has sent a bunch of athletes to Ivy League schools. Some of these kids were not the sharpest tools in the drawer. While their Ivy classmates are at Harvard Business School or at Hopkins studying medicine, these guys are selling commercial real estate (or something similar like selling mortgages). Which is exactly what they would be doing if they had gone to Maryland. (Which is what the Princeton professor's study found.) [/QUOTE]

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