<p>Dartmouth for one reports the number of recruited athletes each year so the 17% is an actual reported stat.</p>
<p>It’s not hard to figure how how much lower athletes stats can be as I’m pretty sure the NCAA (is that the org?) has an open formula. At my kids’ schools, where many were recruited, the kids actually knew down to the point what their SAT score needed to be at each school to make it through admissions.</p>
<p>And then there’s ‘The Price of Admission’, which if you believe (WSJ Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, prize for this topic) says URMs and legacies can have 160 points lower on SATs. It also makes the point that this is not nearly the boost athletes get. Further, the book claims Asians need 50 more SAT points than white candidates.</p>
<p>Lots of info available, this is no big mystery!</p>
<p>My DS is also an unhooked Dartmouth student but he’s what you would expect, a val from a top HS with near perfect scores and good ECs who showed the love ED rather than holding out for a shot at HYPS.</p>