<p>Does anyone have experience with Brown, Williams, or Dartmouth and the amount of support (study halls, tutors, etc.) that athletes are provided?</p>
<p>No athletic/academic support (special tutors, priority registration) at IVYS. Tutors are available - at the same pace that they are available to the entire student body.</p>
<p>Not true for Dartmouth at least, which does offer free tutoring for athletes not provided to most other students. </p>
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<p>Nice! Good call.</p>
<p>I think that question is best asked of a current athlete or one that has as a friend competing at another school. Maybe going to facebook is also better.</p>
<p>I question whether Dartmouth’s position on free limited tutoring for athletes complies with Ivy League rules. As far as I understand, every school is supposed to apply the same academic policies towards their athletes. To do otherwise gives one school an advantage over another school.</p>
<p>The Princeton athlete handbook is devoid of any mention of special athlete specific tutoring. On the athletic website, however, it is clear that athletes have available to them ONLY what is available to all other students:</p>
<p>“For the individual students who participate in athletics, Princeton’s goal is that they be both students and athletes - “student athletes” in the fullest sense of the phrase. As a matter of its own educational policy, the University seeks to assure that athletes are representative of the student body, and are treated as all other students – with the same regard for their health, their academic achievement, and their general personal development.”</p>
<p>When we were at Dartmouth they pointed out the tutoring center and its policies, so it’s public enough that I can’t imagine they’re violating any policies. I can’t find any rule anywhere prohibiting schools from providing tutoring services to athletes not provided to other students–seems more a matter of custom than rule. I suspect tutoring falls into an academic grey area. There’s a brief mention of the Ivy League in the article about tutoring below.</p>
<p><a href=“Athletes Get New College Pitch: Check Out Our Tutoring Center - The New York Times”>Athletes Get New College Pitch: Check Out Our Tutoring Center - The New York Times;
<p>Penn also offers free tutoring for athletes. S was athlete there and also paid to tutor other athletes in the tutoring center there. This too is a well known program for athletes.</p>
<p>Tutoring was available to athletes at Cornell when my son was there. Perhaps it’s the same for all students and the coach and academic advisors simply facilitiate getting that tutoring? There was a mandatory study hall for freshmen on the team, and maybe others. The coach is, of course, interested in keeping his players academically eligible. </p>
<p>Notre Dame was very clear that all freshman students got free tutoring and athletes got free tutoring for all four years.</p>
<p>During an unofficial athletic visit a coach said tutoring was free for students on full FA, but other athletes would be charged a fee. I got the impression the fee might be on a sliding scale tied to the amount of your FA package, but I’m positive about that point. She did say non FA athletes would have to pay for the tutoring. This was a recent visit at Dartmouth,</p>
<p>^ Since all FA is need-based at Dartmouth (and the other Ivies), it sounds like tutoring costs are also priced according to need. Probably the same policy whether one is an athlete or not.</p>
<p>Edit: Reading the link the classicalmama put up, it sounds like Dartmouth’s athletic department will pick up the tab for 3 hours of tutoring per week, regardless of financial need</p>
<p>No one has mentioned the policies at H, Y, C …anyone know?</p>
<p>There is free tutoring at most universities, athlete or not. One of the biggest advantages is early registration. Being closed out of courses is one of the most frustrating aspects of school for students. In general honors students and athletes get to the front of the line for registration.</p>
<p>For Harvard (football), my son was told there is no special academic support, but that support is available for all students if needed. I would say if a kid is actually being recruited, he/she should be having enough contact with a coach to comfortably ask this question directly.</p>
<p>True about Harvard. A relative was recruited by H and he chose to attend a non-Ivy where special academic support is available to athletes.</p>
<p>Yes, most universities have free tutoring, but the quality varies. Even schools that can’t give scholarships need to provide athletes with academic support, usually including a person who tracks their grades for NCAA eligibility purposes. That person often asks for info on how student athletes are doing mid-semester (twice at the school I teach at), and follows up with students if they are having trouble.</p>
<p>At Penn:
[The</a> Tutoring Center at the University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“Tutoring – Weingarten Center”>Tutoring – Weingarten Center)</p>