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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2262407, member: 780"]
From the Harvard Crimson describing the Academic Index:

"The Ivy League has set a minimum AI of 176 for any student-athlete offered admission, corresponding roughly to a 3.0 GPA and an 1140 out of 1600 on the SAT I."

How's that square with your ideas about the difficulty of Ivy League admissions for athletes?

I don't want to provide too much personal information, but I know quite a bit about it because two of my sons were recruited by Ivy League schools.  When the cards, letter and phone calls started I thought there must be some mistake. They were good students at a very good school. But they were not top students.

But the coaches patiently took me all the way through it assuring me that we were in the right ranges. Then I talked to people in the Ivy League office to verify what I had been told. (not that any coaches would ever shade the truth.)

Then I watched kids who I know also get recruited and accepted by Ivies.

One of my favorite stories is about a lacrosse player, who was a nice kid, but definitely not smart. He was recruited HARD by Princeton and he went there on an official visit.

His parents have sooooo much money that they weren't all that interested in the cache of a Princeton degree. And everybody knew the kid was going into the father's construction-related business anyway.

When he got back from his official visit, His report was, "I didn't like those people. Too full of themselves." He wasn't interested. This made the Ivy League obsessed group among the parents dizzy.
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