Reply to "What is considered “high academic”?"

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@DD 2024 posted:
Agree. The Ivies seem way more flexible on athletic admission than the NESCAC, MIT, U Chicago, etc.

Depends HYP generally have higher admission standards than the other 5. The Ivies still use some versions of the Academic Index (AI) so that teams have a threshold for each recruiting class and the team as a whole. You are right about MIT- saw this with my niece who was recruited to play softball there- high board scores, 4.00 or near 4.00 GPA and solid player. She wasn't selected.

To me a HA school has higher admission standards (for the aggregate student applicant pool); Higher GPAs and board scores on transcripts from students and lower acceptance rate from the school. I guess you can say there are different levels of HA. I would probably look again at acceptance rate and US News & World Report rankings.

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