<p>how much of an effect does being a recruited athlete have on one's chances of getting in? (assuming 2200+ SAT and 3.8+ UW GPA)</p>
<p>It would be fairly helpful!</p>
<p>Byerly is correct. If they really want you, it could very well mean the difference between an acceptance and a rejection. This goes for most any school, of course.</p>
<p>At the Ivies, recruited athletes generally have a higher admit rate than legacies or URMs, trailing only facbrats among favored applicant groups!</p>
<p>what are facbrats?</p>
<p>fyi, i'm not that athlete; i'm actually competing against one</p>
<p>Facbrats are the children of faculty members, administrators, etc.</p>
<p>We were told there are no school quotas and you are not competing against a student at your school; you are competing against students from all over the country and globe. Of course, how true this is I couldn't tell you. ;)</p>
<p>it would be nice if adcoms actually told the truth on matters like this, rather than denying the truth in the face of contrary evidence sometimes rising to the level of outright proof. i have in mind, for example, the denial that applying early confers any advantage, when the three distinguished authors of "the early admissions game" have exhaustively shown it to be the case.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a recruited athlete with a 2200 SAT (or 1450 old SAT) and 3.8 uw who DIDN'T get accepted ED?</p>
<p>A girl from my school the year before me applied with a 3.9 and a 1500+ SAT score as a tennis recruit and was deferred. But then she was accepted in the RD round. That was probably an unusual case though</p>
<p>I heard of a top academic student at another Ivy who was told the coach did not want to "waste" a recruiting slot on her because she would almost certainly be admitted on the basis of her academic record. That could be what happened with the tennis recruit shimmya mentions. However, many of the athletes at Princeton are excellent students, so it's hard to predict this sort of thing. Aznoverachiever, if you are a strong candidate and eager to go to Princeton I would just apply. There are many students on campus who went to the same high school, including public ones.</p>
<p>if you get in as an athletic recruit, do you have to play your sport for all your years in college(assumming nothing happens to you and you're ok to play)??</p>
<p>No .</p>
<p>No you do not. you are bound to not athletic commitment (most stay just because they feel bad leaving) but yes you can quit. You don't even have to join. I am friends with a lotta rowers and a lot of recruited rowers have quit.</p>
<p>By recruited athletes, is it meant "students who were athletes in school" or "applicants who plan on participating in a varsity sport in college"?</p>
<p>No. A recruited athlete is someone sought by the coach to participate in their athletic department. Its not just anyone that played in the sport. Of course, you can try to get recruited urself and go to the sport website and fill out a form.</p>
<p>had a friend who was recruited by harvard football. He got in and never even practiced or played football at all.</p>
<p>I got in to Princeton and was a recruited athlete. I got a "likely letter" which is a letter from the University saying that you are likely to be admitted. I got the call November first that is was "likely" to get in, so athletes def. get special treatment. There is no way in the world I would have gotten in on my own, I got a 1980 on my SAT's. got mid-500's on SAT 2's. Was ranked 17 out of 115.</p>
<p>On Princeton's website regarding the equestrian team, it stated that 'no athletic scholarships given out for equestrian'.</p>
<p>Does this mean that it isn't a sport where athletes are recruited (such as in rowing, football etc)? Or just that no monetary awards are given out?</p>
<p>no athletic scholarships are given for rowing or football either</p>