<p>Does anyone on here know a/an athete(s) at Columbia who plays a medium level interest sport like swimming or track?</p>
<p>If so do you know what their scores (sat/act), grades etc. were approximately?</p>
<p>Just wondering because I am being recruited by several of the Ivies and have a fairly high standardized test scores (SAT-1400, ACT-31, SAT II's-670, 680, 650), and will have taken 10 AP's by graduation, but my class rank is barely in the top 20% (~95/505). </p>
<p>Do you think I am in the same area as most of the other athletes at Columbia?</p>
<p>yea you're in good shape. i have a friend who got recruited by columbia for tennis with a 1290 SAT and probably around a top 25% rank.</p>
<p>If you're being recruited you're in very good shape.</p>
<p>I knew a girl who was admitted to Columbia with only ONE AP class under her belt... all she had to do was have dinner with the soccer coach. Sad but true. It looks like you have MUCH more academic integrity than some other Ivy athletes I know of!</p>
<p>thanks for the responses...</p>
<p>are there anymore current students at Columbia, who have an opinion on this topic?</p>
<p>Recruited Athletes are a separate pool of applicants. Each coach has a certain number of almost-guaranteed spots for their recruits--ie, the standards are much much lower in terms of grades and scores for a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>wat i don't understand, go look at the athletic profiles of some of these kids at some schools. They say often, they turned down Duke, Stanford, and Harvard for let's say Northwestern. However, a lot of these kids are admitted via ED. Therefore, how can they say that. For example, a girl from my school who goes to Northwestern under her profile said she chose it over UPenn and Cornell, but she applied Ed to Nwestern and was accepted.</p>
<p>Maybe she turned down athletic recruitment offers from those schools, not acceptances (though I really don't think there's an effective difference).</p>
<p>yeah bascially if your recruited your accepted</p>
<p>Not to rain on your parade, but search some of the old threads on "likely letters" and you'll see there is no guarantee that you will be accepted if you are a "recruited athlete." You are being recruited by a coach not the admissions committee. You do get a "leg up" but there are many, many sad stories of athletes believing coaches and then not getting in.</p>
<p>blah is right. when it says they turned down other schools in their profile it just means they were recruited by those other schools and chose not to go to said university.</p>
<p>There are some absolutely retarded football recruits here. Your scores look good, though, so you'll get in and you'll fit in.</p>
<p>achilleus check your pm</p>