<p>So picky! You think just because a guy has a B GPA and 840 (!) SATs he won't fit in at Duke? Maybe his essays were really great!</p>
<p>I note that these guys are all at or below the average SAT score for Duke football recruits posted above. There were probably a least a couple of others with 1200 or better SATs to balance that out. As I said before, it's not pretty, but it's not the end of the world, either.</p>
<p>k&s wrote that duke dropped its admission standard for the recruits to make its fb program more competitive (they still lose most of the time but they were competitive and close; they beat northwestern this year also). i don't know how he got that info but looks like it might be true!</p>
<p>Oh goody. I hope my kid gets into a class that assigns lots of group projects and that he gets assigned with the kid with the 840 SAT. I'm sure they'll have so much to learn from each other -- and that no one else will ever end up picking up the slack . . .</p>