<p>Ahsmuoh: The swimmer is not our child, so I can’t really give too much information away but the swimmer I mentioned won a very high level event this past summer. She has the grades to matriculate to this school.</p>
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<p>From a different angle:</p>
<p>If you have the athletic stats to compete at an Ivy League school and an ACT score of 32+ you will likely get an admittance. A 32 ACT without an athletic hook? Good luck.</p>
<p>I’m not even sure a 32 ACT is necessary. We know of a least one swimmer that got a 30 at an Ivy League.</p>
<p>I’m looking at a Naviance scattergram for Cornell right now the ACT average score for accepted students from our HS is 31. SAT average is 2025. I don’t know if any athletes are in there but we have accepts with 1800/2400 SAT and a 3.4 GPA.</p>
<p>…and kids with better stats rejected.</p>
<p>There is no way to tell if the 1800 sat score was for an athlete. Most likely this student used act scores instead. If one assumes an athletic AI score of 205 for Cornell then the average sat score for athletes would be about 2050.</p>
<p>S1 attended a private Catholic HS, about 400 in his all-boys senior class. 11 students went on to play NCAA sports as recruits, and there may have been others who walked on as D3 players. S1 played D2 lacrosse, was recruited and received a small athletic scholarship. The much larger scholarship was his academic $$.</p>