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My 2015 is always asked by current parents what his "scores" were when he was being recruited for D1 HA. He said "You mean my BA and how many 2B and HR I had in High school" lol. The truth is D1 HA/Ivy can have some wiggle room depending on the school. For instance the Ivy's have an AI to be considered and if they have a strong core of current academic players/recruits they may have the ability to take a great player with great baseball numbers and a little less of academic numbers. Other HA...

I just skimmed through the posts but I'll add one thing I dont think I saw. When it comes to HA the differences between D1 & D3 are huge. D1 has a lot more wiggle room when it comes to what they can accept. Just as an example...my son had pre-reads done by 3 Ivy's and was told you're good to go. Johns Hopkins told him we'd love to have you but you need another 150 points on your SAT.

Hijacking/rebooting this 2-year-old post because it seems to me that most of its test score discussions focus on ACTs. My 2022 will have taken 2 SATs for this summer, but we are not signing him up to take the ACT at all. This decision is based on his own academic strengths and weaknesses. Bad move? Even in a post-Covid-test-optional year like next one, are ACTs somehow considered superior at HA schools?

All true, UTL. Unfortunately, Son’s first scores are not going to help him. We thought we had time, as we did with his brothers, for a tutor and a test this month or next. However, there are no test centers available to us within 2500 miles until September. Not sure how he’s supposed to jazz up his app at this point.

Many schools are no moving away from both tests. My experience is that ACT is better if you are good at English/Punctuation, Vocal etc and SAT is better for Math /Science guys. Also learned that a over 90 FB will get you a lot of points off both tests!

I'm guessing that if an athlete has a 4.0 unweighted with some AP's, a coach won't need to show anything else to admissions. But if it's 3.0, a 32+ ACT would be good to have.

Instead of discussing actual scores, wouldn’t it be more beneficial to discuss percentiles? A 99 percentile is a 99 percentile no matter what test you take.

Sounds like a challenging situation @smokeminside ...sorry bout that. Some possible solutions if you might be looking for them are: 1. Often during the pandemic, at least here in MN, people had to book tests up to 5 hours away. After booking one in South Dakota (3.5 hour drive away) my spouse continued to look locally and ended up booking a test within an hour of here. Sometimes kids sign up for a couple of tests and then cancel when they hit a score that they need. Something might open...

I think "don't waste the time and money" is a useful comment, though I know some here would disagree with it. My '22 slogs through these tests. Utterly hates them. He's smart but he's not quick. We're not submitting anything, especially now that he can't even get into an ACT test until fall. This mystery remains, however: two kids, identical record (for the sake of argument), applying to the same HA school, whose GPA and rigor put them both at the 50th percentile as far as the admissions...

Couple of quick thoughts: Better to have taken the test and then react on submitting in my opinion. Use/submit it if you want and do not if you dont. Many factors to consider by coaches, admissions, and in some cases the family when applying to a school. I think that schools look at several things in the admissions process. I agree with @JCG but some coaches/admissions could look at a 32 & 3.0 as a negative while others may look at things differently. I believe that it is good for kids...

I'd guess that if you submit a high score, it will be like winning an academic award, or any other piece of the package. And if you don't submit a score at all, you'd better have other great things on your application. I think what many on here would like to know is this: will athletics admissions at HA expect these scores, even if the school does not require them? Because in schools that have slots or some other way the coach gets his preferred players admitted, you need to know if they...

An Ivy Coach will push for an impact D1 player that meets Ivy minimums...seen it many times. Very true and once 1 coach starts calling they all got into the act. And that was 10 mph ago too.

It would seem out of all the Ivys, Columbia is probably the most flexible, especially for hitters...

The devil is in the details and the situation. Let me guess, the 3 Ivys did not include H, Y, or P. 10 years ago, my son went through the same drill thing with Johns Hopkins, Amherst and Williams. He was told he was good to go with Cornell, and Tufts which we were fine with as he was an engineering major and they both had outstanding engineering programs. Cornell and Tufts were recruiting him hard. Harvard was offering but they really wanted him to retake the SAT too improve his score and...

This was a couple of years ago. He was very excited about Yale but a blown labrum killed all of his D1prospects. He was definitely on the lower scale of academics for the Ivy's but they were willing to try and push him through. JH on the other hand had zero flexibility.

SoCal OG - Your situation is interesting as it includes Yale. Back in time when my son was being recruited, Yale seemed to be aloof and unapproachable even for genuine Ivy and D1 recruits I know that has changed as I know a half dozen recruits that have gone there, and they've certainly become more aggressive ion their recruiting over that period of time. If they are not telling your son he doesn't have to improve his score, but Johns Hopkins is then I think something isn't quite right. Your...

His reads were Yale, Dartmouth & Brown. Harvard spoke with him but never asked for scores.