<p>Regarding NCAA eligibility:</p>
<p>Someone playing Div 1 sports can have a 3.525 GPA and score 400 in each part of the SAT and be eligible.</p>
<p>Div II and three there are no threshsholds</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/cbsa/2004-05/2004-05_cbsa.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/cbsa/2004-05/2004-05_cbsa.pdf</a></p>
<p>The overwhelming majority of athletes at the ivies and elite LACs are white.</p>
<p>Overall for blacks every one is stepping up their game. Being a URM is still going to be a hook, the pool of balck applicants are also becoming more competitive, with more choices given to those that bring the overall "A" game to the table. The old sterotype of getting into the ivies with a 1200 is no longer true.If you look up the stats at some of the ivies for the class of 2009 you will find that there were very few if any black admitted with 1200's.</p>
<p>From the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jbhe.com/latest/100704_blackenrollment_yale.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jbhe.com/latest/100704_blackenrollment_yale.html</a></p>
<p>*Yale Tops the Ivy League in Black Freshman Enrollments: *</p>
<p>JBHE has completed its annual collection of data on black first-year enrollments at the eight Ivy League colleges and universities. Blacks make up 9.3 percent of the first-year students at Yale University this fall. This is the highest rate in the Ivy League and the highest rate at Yale in the past decade. A year ago, only 6.7 percent of the entering class at Yale was black. </p>
<p>Harvard University also had a good year in attracting black students. There are 145 black freshmen at Harvard this fall. They make up 8.9 percent of the first-year class. </p>
<p>At the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College, blacks make up slightly more than 7 percent of the entering class. At Columbia University and Brown University, blacks are 6.8 percent of the freshman classes. </p>
<p>As has been the case for the past 13 years since JBHE began collecting statistics on black first-year enrollments in the Ivy League colleges, Cornell University has the smallest percentage of blacks in its entering class. This fall blacks are 4.7 percent of the freshman class at Cornell. </p>
<p>*Black Participation in Particular Advanced Placement Courses: *</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jbhe.com/latest/022405_advancedplacementcourses.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jbhe.com/latest/022405_advancedplacementcourses.html</a></p>
<p>In 2004 more than 78,000 African-American students took Advanced Placement examinations. Blacks now make up 5 percent of all Advanced Placement test takers nationwide. For both blacks and whites, English literature, American history, English composition, and calculus were the most popular AP courses. Blacks were 6.9 percent of all students who took the AP test in French literature. This was the highest participation percentage for any of the 34 AP subject tests. Blacks were also at least 6 percent of all test takers in the subject areas of English literature, world history, macroeconomics, and French language. </p>
<p>The lowest level of black participation was on the Spanish literature test. Only 56 black students nationwide took the AP test in Spanish literature in 2004. They were only 0.6 percent of all test takers in this subject. Blacks were also less than 2 percent of all AP test takers in the subject areas of electrical and magnetic physics, Spanish language, computer science, and German. </p>
<p>*Black Applicants Surge at Harvard and Dartmouth: *</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jbhe.com/latest/021005_applicant_dartmouth-harvard.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jbhe.com/latest/021005_applicant_dartmouth-harvard.html</a></p>
<p>Harvard reported this past week that it received a total of 22,717 applications for the class that will enter this fall. The number of applicants rose by 15 percent from last year's total. Black applications for the freshman class increased at an even higher rate. Harvard reports that black applicants increased 28.3 percent from last year. A university spokesperson stated that the huge jump in applicants may be due to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which essentially eliminates out-of-pocket tuition and room and board expenses for students who come from families with incomes of less than $40,000 per year. </p>
<p>In the year after the Cornel West controversy, black enrollments dipped slightly at Harvard. Now it appears that Harvard has weathered that storm as well as last summer's controversy surrounding the denial of tenure to African-American studies professor Marcyliena Morgan. This denial of tenure caused Professor Morgan and her husband, Lawrence Bobo, the esteemed sociologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, to take tenured teaching positions at Stanford. </p>
<p>At Dartmouth College, overall applications surged to their highest level in history. The admissions office reports that applications from "students of color" represented 25 percent of the total pool. Applications from blacks were at their highest level in the past four years. Good evidence that a frigid winter climate does not necessarily deter black applications to a college that is otherwise seen as receptive to black students.</p>