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Ivy League Schools & Recruited Athletes Ivy League schools do not
award athletic scholarships even though as NCAA I schools they could.
But these schools can – and do - award other forms of financial aid to
recruited athletes. But the big reward for most Ivy league School
athletes is simply the opportunity to gain admission.
Last year Harvard received 40,000 applications, of
these only about 5% or around 2,000 were accepted. Over
8,000 applications were from students with straight A’s and 3,500 had
perfect (800) Math SAT scores. Consequently, Harvard as well as all
other school with an excess of applicants with high academic credentials
must look at extracurricular and other factors in order to rank
applications. This part of the admission process is often referred
to as a “black box”. But the lid on this box was peeled back somewhat in
2018 when Harvard became involved in a highly publicized anti-bias
lawsuit.
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Admission | Undergrad | Total | ||
School | Rate | Enrollment | Athletes | Athlete % |
Brown | 9% | 6,556 | 892 | 14% |
Columbia | 7% | 7,552 | 753 | 10% |
Cornell | 14% | 14,461 | 1,120 | 8% |
Dartmouth | 11% | 4,230 | 903 | 21% |
Harvard | 5% | 6,931 | 1,070 | 15% |
Penn | 9% | 10,231 | 891 | 9% |
Princeton | 7% | 5,236 | 1,067 | 20% |
Yale | 6% | 5,468 | 849 | 16% |
While Harvard's admission rate is only 5%, varsity
athletes constitute 15% of the undergraduate population - 3 times
the general admission rate. Princeton has a similar ratio, an admission
rate of only 7% but athletes constitute 20% of the undergraduate
population. Cornell is the only Ivy where the percentage of enrolled
athletes does not exceed the admission rate. So being an athlete can level the playing field to a significant extent in the admission process. And this is true for many schools, look at the admission rates and athlete percentages for these non-Ivy League schools: |
Admission | Undergrad | Total | ||
School | Rate | Enrollment | Athletes | Athlete % |
Stanford | 5% | 7,032 | 851 | 12% |
U.S. Naval Academy | 7% | 4,526 | 1,162 | 26% |
MIT | 8% | 4,444 | 675 | 15% |
Cal Tech | 8% | 1,547 | 209 | 14% |
U.S. Military Academy | 9% | 4,389 | 947 | 22% |
Amherst College | 14% | 1,846 | 587 | 32% |
U.S. Air Force Academy | 15% | 4,237 | 686 | 16% |
Bowdoin College | 15% | 1,798 | 635 | 35% |
Middlebury College | 17% | 2,496 | 698 | 28% |
Williams College | 17% | 2,044 | 744 | 36% |
Grinnell College | 20% | 1,653 | 392 | 24% |
Washington & Lee | 24% | 1,818 | 504 | 28% |
Colby College | 26% | 1,879 | 660 | 35% |
Hamilton College | 27% | 1,866 | 579 | 31% |
These are just a few examples of some very
selective schools with ultra competitive admission rates. And in all
cases the percentage of athletes to the undergraduate population exceeds
the general admission rate, and in most cases the athlete percentage is
significantly higher. All these schools have tip top academics, but they
also strive to be competitive on the playing field. So even if your parents are not alumni and your grandfather isn't a big donor, you can gain an edge in the admissions process if you have decent grades and can compete on say, the soccer field. The biggest edge an athlete has in the admission process at any school is he or she has a key insider - the team's coach - aggressively lobbying for that athlete to gain admission. |
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