Ivy League SAT Scores

You can do a google search pretty easily and come up with this.  I did "Harvard SAT" and this is what I found...

http://collegeapps.about.com/o...sion-gpa-sat-act.htm

mcmahoniac,

The answer is not important in the context of averages.  Each school's overall admission's requirements are different as well as the individual colleges within those Universities.  SATs are important relative to your baseball abilities.   The better baseball player you are the more leeway you have with SAT or ACT scores within a range (not average).  The bottom of the range is 171.

Advice:  Do a search on this topic in HSBBWeb and you will get a lot of threads on the topic that have already been covered.   It is extremely important you understand the Academic Index (the range mentioned above).  This is a very good doc to get you started. 

http://www.tier1athletics.org/...vy-league-academics/

http://www.mka.org/uploaded/co...elines_Worksheet.pdf

Good luck!

There are couple of "accepted" numbers on that graph that are very low.  Very surprising.  We are going through the process now and the numbers for athletes are lower than normal top 2% requirement, and Big three (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) have higher requirements than the others, (according to what we have been told by coaches).  

There will always be "exceptions" such as foreign student without comparative measurements, a nontraditional schooled applicant, a senior citizen, etc.  But there is a definite 'average" entrance score.

Fenwaysouth has more knowledge on this topic than just about anyone.  He added a couple of links to his post above, but if you have specific questions he's the man.  I recommend you pm him if you need more detail.

For Cornell, the stated scores are misleading. It's dependent on what college (section of the school) your son wants to apply to. For the engineering college, the median SAT Math score is something like 760. It may be 800, actually. I can't remember.

Your point is a good one, but I'm not sure about the specific numbers.  Overall acceptance rate at Cornell is around 17%.  Acceptance rate in the Engineering college is about 7% for the general population (according to the Dean).  If you are a recruited athlete those acceptance numbers change in your favor in terms of getting into the school initially.  The coach has a range of one standard deviation away from the incoming class (need to understand the AI). 

Once you're accepted, then it becomes a huge challenge to remain in the Engineering school as an example.  There are similar situations across the Ivys, and you need to research the heck out it for your specific interests.

The answer varies tremendously from one Ivy to the next.  E.g., Dartmouth has  a reputation for cutting no one any slack in admissions.  But Harvard will.

I suspect, can't prove it, that Yale baseball requires every recruit to be within one standard deviation of the campus AI.......none of that system where a high AI offsets a low one.

I have no opinion whether this also applies to the hockey team.

Yale's previous policy & reputation was to offer less admission assistance to athletes than other Ivys under former President Levin.  President Levin viewed athletes as talented individuals just as talented painters, writers, and cello players.

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/...l-raise-recruitment/

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/...caps-come-at-a-cost/

What Yale's hockey team did last year was incredible despite this policy.  It makes it even more impressive in my mind.

The Yale's hockey team's accomplishment last year was special and very impressive.

As I guessed, Yale's extra-stringent athletic recruiting policies apparently don't apply to the hockey team according to the second of the articles linked in the prior post. Hockey team made better use of the leniency than football and basketball, for sure!

Several alumni cited Yale football’s performance in The Game over the past 10 years — with only one win in that span — as evidence of the policy’s detrimental effects. But according to Beckett, the number of football recruits has been steady throughout Levin’s presidency at roughly 30 recruits per year, with ice hockey and basketball numbers also remaining largely unaffected.

Having had access to the PG site that showed SAT scores most players that committed to Ivy's I have seen SAT scores that were 1850 on up. I remember seeing just a few in the high 1780 range.  Not sure if those scores were "one sitting" or super scores. If I had to guess an average I might guess 1970? I do know that Yale does like their Bball players to be above 2000 on a single sitting(perhaps that could change with new President).Princeton Coach said they like to see all three parts in the mid to high 600's. Also concur with Fenway(always do) that there is not a magic # as each school has their own quirks. I would say from strickly an SAT range 1950 plus puts you in pretty good shape from that end for most. Still need to impress on the field and with the overall transcripts etc. It is the players overall package what they bring to the table.

Do your sources have anything to say about ACT scores? Do you get the impression that ACT is not viewed with the same importance as SAT?

I do not have the impression that the ACT is viewed with less importance. From what I recall,  the heavy majority of reported scores on the players profile were SAT scores.