<p>Wish I had known about athletic scholarships in the Patriot League. D was heavily recruited by Bucknell and Lehigh, both offering merit money right off the bat. Athletic money on top of that would have been nice. I have to agree with post #19. She was recruited by all NESCAC’s but told her skills were just not strong enough for the IVY’s.</p>
<p>@ThankYouforHelp @acemom I was speaking off my experience, and I’m a football player. Generally the PL is stronger than the Ivy and the Ivy is stronger than the nescac when it comes to my sport. I’m aware that in sports such as lacrosse this is far different in that the Ivy blows away the patriot and the nescac could keep up with most PL teams. As to thankyouforhelps commen, top nescacs bend admission standards more than you would thing. A kid on my team a couple years back was heavily recruited by brown but they weren’t able to get him in due to his 25 on the act. He contacted all the nescacs really late and middlebury ended up opening their admissions back up just for him and admitting him. </p>
<p>Basically while the statement that ivys bend more than nescacs is generally true top nescacs will alter their standards if it involves a d1 caliber athlete (which the person I’m speaking of was) </p>
<p>Studfest: Right you are. One of my S’s best friends with a 3.2 gpa and 1280 on SATs was offered by a top NESCAC but ultimately chose a Patriot League School.</p>
@zenator Sorry to dig up an old thread, but is that 1280 on the 1600 scale or the 2400 scale?
1600 scale. However, this was a student, who attended a top private school with a very strong strength of schedule and was a D1AA athlete, who ended up starting as a sophomore in college. An unweighted 3.2 at one school may be the practical equivalent of a 3.7 at another.