@celerime1 No. They do not. No one is admitted for “sports” with marginal academic ability at MIT.
@StanfordSwag I don’t think you understand the difference between “recruiting” and “signing a commitment letter”. While MIT does not have letters of commitment, they certainly do recruit nationwide.
For the larger sports such as crew, football, baseball, and basketball, the level of involvement in recruiting is actually fairly high. Often times, students that could have played at an ivy as a D1 athlete, instead attend MIT for academic reasons (while still playing the D3 version of their sport).
@PurePhysics and I don’t think you can read nor comprehend what I said.
“No one is admitted for “sports” with marginal academic ability at MIT.”
If you’d refer to your previous statement (really, it’s only two mouse clicks away) you’d see that you stated MIT does not recruit for athletics. This is false.
Moreover, I have seen various cases of sub-par students being accepted on the basis of athletics (say, 1900-2000 SAT scores with a lack of extracurriculars).
A quarter of MIT students have SAT reading or writing scores in the 600’s. Are you trying to say that they are “sub-par”?
To achieve reading and writing scores at the 25th percentile, and to score a total of 2000 or less, an MIT student’s math score would need to be 630 or less. Maybe you don’t like the term “sub par,” but relatively speaking, that’s a weak result for an MIT admit.
Doubling up what @JustOneDad said.
@StanfordSwag division III schools, including MIT, DO recruit athletes. I was being recruited for a time, and a senior at my school actually signed with MIT on signing day. They don’t offer athletic scholarships, but coaches can definitely push through students they want (as long as they have the necessary GPA/SAT’s).
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