The Athletic Admissions Advantage
July 11th, 2008 - byFamilies often get nervous when they hear about any conference or divisions that don’t offer scholarships. This blog has a ton of posts detailing the different ways they can actually find money for athletes, but, today I wanted to focus on another advantage of being an athlete interested in elite institutions. Being an athlete can help you get through admissions at some of the toughest schools in the country.
I know it’s a cynical world we live in so I pulled some information from one of NCSA’s top secret projects to share with you today. We took the average ACT and SAT scores of newly admitted students to major institutions (From College Board.com) and compared them to our own NCSA Student Athlete scores who were admitted to those very same schools. The results we saw were staggering.
Our Student-Athletes had an average ACT score of 28 compared to a school average of 31 while the SAT was 1288 to 1417 (writing was excluded). The numbers speak for themselves, if a school wants you as an athlete they are going to try their best to get you through admissions.
Data based on students who were admitted to: Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Penn, California Tech, MIT, Duke, Columbia, University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis, Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Cal Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, Georgetown, UCLA, Michigan, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Carleton, Middlebury, Pomona, Bowdoin, Davidson, Haverford, Claremont, McKenna, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Vassar, Harvey Mudd, Washington and Lee, Smith College, Hamilton college, Colgate, Bryn Mawr, Oberlin, Colby, the US Naval Academy, and West Point WestPoint.
