<p>What are good SAT scores and GPAs for a person who wants to play a sport at an Ivy school. (track: pole vault)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>If you get recruited: 1900+</p>
<p>But i don't actually know.</p>
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<li>Depends on the sport.</li>
<li>Depends on the Ivy.</li>
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<p>Check the website for each Ivy. I know that for swimming, Yale has specific times and GPA/SAT an athlete is required to meet, and they are pretty insane.</p>
<p>First, go to Academic</a> Index Calculator - Ivy League to calculate your Academic Index. There is an Ivy League floor score (I believe 171) beneath which you are not admitable. Another rule requires that recruited athletes must be within a certain reach (two standard deviations??) of the average AI of a given school's accepted class, so the true AI floor will vary among shools, and may be well over 171.</p>
<p>For non-revenue sports I've heard the floor is an AI of 210.</p>
<p>wow someone is actually referring to the ivy league as what it is</p>
<p>I have been told there is a hierarchy of scores that vary by sport, as per sherpa's comment. I have heard (but cannot confirm) that sports like fencing are the toughest scorewise, while BBall and Fball are the lowest. But, again I don't know for sure. However, I should point out that a number of athletes get in with the regular profile scores for the given Ivy.</p>
<p>Really want to know? Ask the coach that's recruiting you. Or even ask the coach <em>before</em> he recruits you. Coaches pretty much know what the admissions offices are looking for.</p>
<p>anecdotal, but the 3 ivy athletes I know had about the same "ivy profile"-no more, no less.</p>
<p>This guy from my school got recruited for baseball by Yale, Princeton, and Cornell with a low 1900, so if you're in that range, you should be fine. He's going to Princeton btw.</p>
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Another rule requires that recruited athletes must be within a certain reach (two standard deviations??) of the average AI of a given school's accepted class, so the true AI floor will vary among shools, and may be well over 171.
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This is closest ... but it's more complicated. The AI index was created for managing recruits at the IVYs ... and it is still used for that purpose. Each school is allowed a certain number of recruits in bands of AIs below the typical admit in the school (a band is roughly a standard deviation) ... a bunch of recruits can be in the first band below the typical admit (as would a whole bunch of the non-atheltic-recruit kids also), a lot less can be in the second band, few in the third, etc. Schools can decide how to use these slots by sport ... Cornell, for example, is likely to use it's few lower band slots on kids like top flight hockey or lacrosse players while other schools may focus on other spots. So the answer for you is ... it depends ... on the sport ... on the school ... and on how good you are ... if you would be a high impact player in a major sport for that school there is a fair amount of slack ... if you'd be a solid contributor you have to be in the area of the typical students.</p>
<p>"If you get recruited: 1900+</p>
<p>But i don't actually know."</p>
<p>I wonder what anyone could get out of this answer!? :p</p>
<p>roughly the same stats as a non-athlete would have...assuming you aren't an olympian. they might be a little more forgiving if you are a top recruit, but don't lean on it. prepare as you would if you weren't an athlete.</p>
<p>bottom line: you've gotta be smart to get into harvard. hooks only do so much for you.</p>
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wow someone is actually referring to the ivy league as what it is
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<p>Hahahaha.....</p>
<p>A top athlete at my school runs a subpar average and contents himself with C and D averages in hard courses -- he however, got a letter from Harvard saying they would admit him if he had an SAT score above some amount (I think 1700). I think his GPA hovers around a 2.5 - 3.0.</p>
<p>I would have jumped at the chance -- and he's pretty intelligent. He had a pretty decent shot, but he neither wanted to work for the SAT, nor did he want the challenging curriculum of Harvard. But it was perfectly possible for him to have attempted to get in.</p>
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roughly the same stats as a non-athlete would have...assuming you aren't an olympian.
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<p>Well, not an Olympian, but if you're a <em>star</em> at your sport, then you have pretty good chances with below-average GPA and SATs (for Ivies). Again, this student I know failed his precalculus final (despite being pretty good at AP physics), gave himself a sigh of relief when he got an 85 for AP World History, but he was nevertheless solicited for recruitment.</p>
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roughly the same stats as a non-athlete would have...assuming you aren't an olympian. they might be a little more forgiving if you are a top recruit, but don't lean on it. prepare as you would if you weren't an athlete.
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<p>not at all. if you're good enough to be recruited, then the coach definitely wants you and you will get some pull assuming it's not caltech or a school like that. there's a kid going to an ivy with a low 1800 as a recruited athlete. some sports also get more leeway than others (football, basketball).</p>