<p>How much of a break do you think athletes get to get into an ivy league school? im talking about all ivy league schools? What do you think is the minimum stats they have to have? Just something to think about</p>
<p>This link to Harvard's athletic self-study report (from a thread here last year) might be helpful - particularly Section 2.1 starting on page 27. As a general matter, how much athletics helps depends on how good you are (and in what sport), but the academic standards are still pretty high, even for recruited athletes in major sports. They're just not quite as high as for those without this advantage.</p>
<p>to put it bluntly, a two-sport varsity athlete at my school was contacted by harvard admissions and told that he would be guaranteed admittance with a 28 on his act.</p>
<p>the track coach told me that the average academic index of all the athletes he recruited for the team had to be within one standard deviation of the mean A.I. for normal students. my AI was actually above the mean so i was partially recruited to drive his average up. any more questions, just ask me.</p>
<p>It depends on not only the sport but also the athlete. In basketball H has taken to recruiting players with academic credentials that even some ACC schools would wince at. Track, not so much. H seems to be trending toward Stanford where the credentials of most athletes bear no similarity with those of rest of the class.</p>
<p>mia,</p>
<p>The standards that token89 describes apply to all sports at Harvard (and other Ivy League schools). This is pursuant to agreement among all the Ivy League schools. I know the New York Times had a snarky article about this year's basketball recruiting at Harvard, but a number of the players recruited were in fact not admitted because they failed to meet the standards. Of course, that's also why the Ivy League will never be competitive in basketball with schools like Stanford and Duke, which do not have such standards.</p>