<p>How much easier is it to get into an Ivy League school if I am a pretty good Division 1 football prospect?</p>
<p>A pretty good Div I prospect still would need pretty decent academics. How much easier? Somewhat but you’d still need to meet certain requirements. This being said, can I give you the telephone or email address of a coach I know in New Haven?</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>Well i got a 1820 SAT not great and a 3.5 GPA and still am going to take my SAT II. The Dartmouth coach gave me a call and said I was in the middle band but the internet calculators say I might be lower. Who is this New Haven coach?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Keep in mind that ivies don’t give athletic scholarships. </p>
<p>What position do you play? how good are you?</p>
<p>It’s a joke meaning New Haven, as in Yale University, in place of Harvard haha. Harvard and Yale have this annual rivalry game where each school trashes the other 
You would need to raise those SATs in my opinion, but I’m a propspective student trying to get in this fall 
Good luck!</p>
<p>I know my scores are a little low but I am getting recruited for the top Division 1 FCS schools like Montana, Montana state and Lafayette etc. for wide receiver. But I heard that the Ivy Leagues give a lot of institutional funding to athletes. I’m not sure what that is exactly but is sounds good. Also i’m from Montana so that why I don’t get the joke lol</p>
<p>Haha I’m an East Coast guy; alumni have more fun with that game then the players it seems lol. Oh I don’t doubt your great athletic abilities at all, it’s just that usually athletes @ Ivies are still pretty legit academically. Like I was looking into basketball at some Ivy-type schools, but those people’s academic stats are still fairly high (3.85+ UW GPA, tough schedules in school, got the solid standardized test scores, leadership, passionate ECs, etc). </p>
<p>You still have to be amazing academically most of the time. I looked up the profiles of the athletes @ schools I looked at, and not only were they “Mr. Basketball” of the state they lived in, they had good GPAs, SATs, and everything else. I’m not sure what “institutional funding” is, I know Ivies are great with financial aid, but there’s no merit/athletic aid. Then again, I’ve seen Harvard take guys with a 2.5 GPA to play ball, but if you catch those coaches’ eyes like you did @ Dartmouth, you should be set. Good luck :)</p>
<p>There is a kid local to where I am at that got into an Ivy League with an 1100 on his SAT. He is one of the better football players in the area, a quarterback, and was recruited by the school for football.</p>
<p>Where is this? How big is his school?</p>
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<p>What do you mean by institutional funding? No Ivy league schools give merit based scholarships at all. They all have pretty generous need-based financial aid though, but the amount just depends on your EFC. It doesn’t take into account if you are a recruited athlete</p>
<p>thats just what I heard. it might be wrong</p>
<p>It could be right too. I’m just curious as to what they meant by it</p>
<p>But most people don’t pay the full price for an ivy league school right?</p>
<p>People with need get aid.Need can be an income under $180,000. No merit. No athletic scholarships. More of the aid may be grant.
I imagine the Ivy recruit mentioned by rjp had a hook(1st gen, URM or what) Your above average unhooked athlete needs 700s. Probably the OP does, too.
Look at other posts and calculate your AI.</p>
<p>At my alma mater, approx 60% of the kids are on FA of some sort – Yale is extremely generous.</p>
<p>There is much latitude at the Ivies for sports like football and basketball. A friends son is going to Harvard with an SAT of 1700 (I don’t know the CR/Math breakdown) - football. I know on Naviance for my son’s school there are scores like that - these would indicate basketball players from my son’s school as they send lots of kids to Harvard for basketball - they will have 5 on the team next year.</p>
<p>Here is the article on the kid I mentioned…</p>
<p>[Ribault</a> Senior Headed to Princeton - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville](<a href=“http://www.news4jax.com/news/22458137/detail.html]Ribault”>http://www.news4jax.com/news/22458137/detail.html)</p>
<p>In a different article that was run in the local newspaper it gave his SAT score, which they said was 1100. I can’t find that article online to post it.</p>
<p>Florida public high schools are poor compared to most states. If you look at state rankings, florida is near the bottom. Schools in florida get grades every year based on their standardized testing results. The high school this kid is graduating from has consistently been ranked an F, and is considered an at risk school. Which means it is on the verge from being closed because it is so poor academically. Kids who attend F schools are allowed to transfer to other high schools so they can get a better academic experience. There are also some reduced funding implications from being an F school.</p>
<p>He had a 4.6 GPA from an IB program, but an 1100 SAT which is probably representative of the academic environment he was provided at this school.</p>
<p>Also the student was a URM, which helps in the admissions process (not a value judgment, simply a fact).</p>
<p>I don’t think URM would come into the picture in this case. The reality is that no student with an 1100 on the SAT would get accepted at Princeton without someone with admissions pull helping out. This was a football decision, and probably would have been made regardless of race, because the kid is an athlete and probably in a class the team is not regularly used to recruiting.</p>
<p>The Ivies have rules about how many athletes with lower academic stats they can accept…so being a recruited athlete can help you get in, but they won’t take anybody who they don’t think can do the work, and they will only take a few at the lower end of their range. The OP is probably in a range that they could consider.</p>
<p>But it’s important to emphasize again: the Ivies do NOT give athletic scholarships (or any other kind of merit scholarship). No matter how good an athlete you are, if your parents make $300,000 per year, you will pay full price. Period. They do give very generous need-based aid, including to some people with pretty healthy incomes.</p>