<p>Im hoping to get recruited to some ivy league schools such as upenn, columbia and brown and I was wondering what the range of scores and grades are for recruited athletes? How much do ivy league schools lower their standards for athletes? Do athletics help in the admissions process and how much can the coach advocate for you?</p>
<p>are you a senior?</p>
<p>Ivy League can’t offer scholarships and your question suggestions your scores wouldn’t be high enough to attend an Ivy League school. I know your nor asking about a scholarship but even admission isn’t influenced by athletics.</p>
<p>What? Admissions aren’t influenced by admissions? Of course they are!</p>
<p>OCM: I’m sure Achilles meant to say that admissions is influenced by athletics. That’s true and has been for many decades.</p>
<p>Hi! Thanks so much for replying!</p>
<p>Im a nationally ranked diver (I’ve placed top 6 nationally) and I’m also a part of the USA diving junior national team. I’ve been committed to this sport ever since 3rd grade and a lot of my time is devoted to it. Im just really worried about grades, especially my gpa. oh and Im a junior this year. So far my gpa is about 3.4 unweighted and I’m taking the hardest courses offered in my school except for math (I’m in honors). My school doesn’t offer AP’s for juniors so we have intensive and accelerated classes which are basically AP level, and I’m taking those. Im also involved in many clubs and I also am on my high schools varsity swim and dive team. My ACT composite score is 30 but I plan on taking that again. And I just took an SAT subject test, but I’m waiting on that result. I’ve already talked to the columbia coach which is my goal school and he said he wants to recruit me…but them again, I’m afraid my grades aren’t good enough. So I’m just wondering what my chances are right now, and if my grades are similar to other recruited athletes! Thanks so much!!!</p>
<p>I’ve heard that something like 17% of Ivy League classes are athletes, though the dropout rate – since there are no scholarships demands to play – is fairly high, especially for upper classpersons who don’t start. Anyways, I heard the average SAT score is more like 1300 old style than 1450, quite a difference. But I imagine recruited might be a different class, and I’ve heard 1200 SATs are also accepted. I would also bet many of these students also overlap with legacies and feeder prep school people with big bucks who are not looking for scholarships at all, the schools are looking for alumni giving. Athletes also do well in finance, team players, will sell you anything, it is going up, so schools take note of this too, socialized jocks.</p>
<p>I know a guy who wrestles for Columbia with a 3.8 GPA (Idk if uw or w) and I believe a 29 act.</p>