Link to Harvard NCAA Report on Athletic Recruitment at Harvard

[tokenadult]

<p><a href="http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/NCAASelfStudy.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/NCAASelfStudy.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>My thanks to CC participant Papa Chicken who found many links like this to NCAA self study reports, mentioned in a thread he opened on the College Search & Selection Forum. </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=353808%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=353808&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[tokenadult]

<p>I thought one interesting paragraph was the one including this statement: </p>

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@Harvard NCAA self-study

The broad findings of the analysis show that both the athletes and non-athletes admitted by the institution have excellent academic credentials. There is less than a 100-point difference between the average SAT scores of recruited student-athletes and those of students in general, and the differences within ethnic and gender categories are similarly small. Harvard is comfortable with these small differences between the admission profiles of its student athletes and the profiles of students in general, given the unusually large time-commitment associated with students in consuming extra-curricular activities such as sports, music, or dance at a national or international level.

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<p><a href="http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/NCAASelfStudy.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/NCAASelfStudy.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[marite]

<p>Another interesting bit of information:
For the class of 2009, 200-300 students were admitted on academic criteria alone (i.e., they were deemed academic stars). 114 received likely letters, of whom 76 were athletes; the rest included artists and mathematicians.</p>

[tokenadult]

<p>It's interesting to hear the exact number of likely letters.</p>

[TribecaMom]

<p>Likely letters at Harvard seemed scarcer than other Ivies. Far as I could tell the coaches would only use them if absolutely necessary. </p>

<p>With elimination of early action this year there will certainly be a new emphasis on likely letters, very few recruited athletes will expose/abandon the admissions leverage gained by making a firm commitment to a coach to the uncertainty of an April decision from Admissions.</p>