The form says – “The student’s athletic rating established by intercollegiate athletics and undergraduate admissions. Non-athletes will have a rating of NULL. A rating greater than ‘2’ indicates that the students is considered a recruited athlete. Values: NULL; 1-6.”
The three categories are: (a) non-athlete (0); (b) non-recruited athlete (1-2); and, (c) recruited athlete (3-6). While the AO must ultimately assign a value, they have no basis for doing so without input from the coach. In order to get any athletic rating at all, the coach must communicate with admissions. Put another way, I don’t believe an applicant can get a 1 or 2 athletic rating by telling Penn admissions that he/she is talented enough to be recruited at some other ivy league programs, but that Penn’s coaches have no interest because they are stacked with amazing talent.
Perhaps you should ask the coach what athletic rating (0-6) he expects admissions is going to assign (and let us all know)!