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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 3129793, member: 780"]
You sure half right. They do accept athletes with 1200 or 1250 SATs but they also consider class rank in the calculation. But what you may not understand is that they can only have a few of these across the entire group of athletic recruits they bring in in a year. And this small number has to be offset by very high SAT scoring, high Class Rank athletes on the other end of the distribution.

The great bulk of the athletes they bring in have much higher SAT scores and higher Class Rank.

Using SAT scores and Class Rank as the measures, The distribution of athletes must match the distribution of the entire class they bring in.

The index is based on tiers and is matched against a two-tailed “normal” distribution of SAT scores and Class Rank for an entire incoming class of students.  There are five tiers. Kids with 1250 SATs who rank in the upper half of their high school class are in the bottom tier. And each school can admit only a few of these in the lowest tier in any class in all sports. If they use one of these for a basketball player it is not available for a football player. This isn’t by sport, it’s for the all sports.

The result is that there are a few bottom tier players on each team.

There are zero athletes with 1000 SATs.
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