How good of GPA do you need IF YOU ARE a basketball player at Harvard, Yale, Princeton?
Watching Princeton play KU and was wondering this.
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one of your friends' dads/uncles/godfathers/mother's ex-boyfriend's caddy could hook you up. easily
One of my friends wanted to play football at yale and he needed a 3.6.....
But is UK really about lose to HYP
I assume you mean H.S. GPA... if so, not so much the GPA, but you probably need to be at least top 20% of your class and get an 1150 your SAT (old SAT). I think the worst students on those teams probably match that description. There are plenty of 1400-1600 and top 5% kids, though.
I am in a suicide bracket and if that happened and Louisville lost, i'd be soo money.
Obviously you know nothing about sports...
The answer to your question would be, "depends on how good you are."
Obviously you can't be a complete dumb ass, but if Derrick Rose or any top HS recruit actually wanted to go to Harvard, trust me, they would FIND a way.
This isn't true. Not when it comes to the Ivy leagues
Knew a kid at my high school who was looked at by an Ivy. Kid was a starter at 6'6". Team made it to the final four his senior year. Not an extremely large state but big enough. Kid had a 3.2 GPA. They wanted him to go to a prep school for a year and then transfer in for them after he raised his grades. All-state team. No Derrick Rose but a good player. It all depends on what the team needs are for that recruiting class and how you fit into that equation.
It's not KU, it's Kentucky (UK) big difference...
Thank you.
The higher you can dunk the ball the less GPA you need.
I A) was a three sport athlete in HS so I know a little lol and B) yeah UK my bad
Ballfan: your one for one and they are close...kentucky's most likely gonna rape em in the 2nd though
I know a guy that played Hockey at Harvard back in the 80's and if you didn't know any better (and didn't see the giant ass Harvard ring he always throws in people's faces) you would think he was retarded.
please tell me you guys are watching Princeton v Kentucky and Princeton is LEADING 42-37
mmod.ncaa.com watch the game.
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Those are Ivies just the same.
I have a friend at Harvard who had 1200 and 3.0 from high school- he plays a sport..Interestingly enough he has a 3.5 at Harvard and never studies
Hah, that explains how grade inflation is persistent even at H?
I have a friend who graduated HS as the #1 ranked athlete in the country in his sport, a spot he held since Jr year of HS.... broke a shit load of records.
Went to Harvard with a 3.0 from a public HS. Also... graduated with a very very high GPA. He's now at Harvard Med School, so unlikely there was any favoritism going on there. Very bright kid.
Ivy League football has something called the Academic Index.... a system of GPA/SAT bands that allocate admissions slots for football recruits.
Typically 30 recruits per year. The 30 slots are distributed in a way to statistically mirror the incoming freshman class academically (with a set deviation factor).
For HYP, they can't touch anyone below 3.0/1200 SAT. (and only get 2 spots at that level)
If you have 3.8/1550... much easier.
Most of the players fall somewhere in between: ~3.5/1350
Veritas is right on target. The lowest band is only two players per year. The rankings are dependent on a number of things: GPA, SAT 1, SAT 2, ACT, and Class Rank are the ones I can think of right now. If you were top 10% of your class and didn't completely bomb the standardized testing, you're in good shape as an athlete. Being more highly skilled will buy you more leniency, but not a complete free pass.
There are no scholarships, only "need-based financial aid"... they do teach the athletes a few minor tips and tricks, but nothing illegal (unfortunately).
As someone who went through the ivy recruiting process (although for lacrosse) the general rule of thumb is if you are good enough, it doesn't really matter. Usually a team breaks their recruits into different tranches based on how good they are and the athletes grades. So if you are good enough and have shitty grades (around a 3.0), you are placed in the C tranche and I'm assuming HPY get only a few a year of these for basketball. the rest of the team is made up of smart people who might or might not have gotten in without basketball but are very smart. The dude who made the shot for Princeton was a C tranche guy obviously
Any143 I'm a fellow laxer whered you end up playing?
A girl in my graduating class got into Princeton a soccer scholarship with 1500 out of 2400. She was all state.
Liar. Ivy League schools do not give athletic scholarships.
Hank Paulson played Dartmouth football...
This thread is chock full of bullshit. It's clear that most of you talking about "retards" getting into HYP know nothing about the Ivy League athletic recruiting process.
Harvard has the highest standard of the 3 schools (HYP) in terms of GPA and test scores for athlete recruitment. If you don't pass the minimum threshold for most teams of 700 on the SAT I's and have a very high GPA, you're probably not going to get looked at. Most kids are in the 2100-2200 range, but there are tons of 2300+ kids as well. The lower you go down the ivies, the less of an academic standard they have. It also depends on your sport. If you play a sport like basketball, lax, hockey or baseball, your academic standards for admission are much lower than people on say the track, swimming, and tennis teams. This is well known. But the Academic Index allows for teams to take the stud athletes with slightly lower test scores, etc while accepting kids with lights out scores and are still top level varsity players, but will most likely be bench warmers.
Agree entirely with this post. Recruited athlete for H/Y for one of the better sports teams (hockey/rowing). If they really want you and they're a big time sport that receives a ton of funding either through coverage or donations (rowing is a big one...so is lax), they'll make it work. The guys on our hockey, lax, and wresting teams were not the brightest.
If it's a big-time sport, academic requirements are the same across the board - not much. If it's a more traditional sport that requires academic achievement like soccer, swimming, track then you'd need to have a decent GPA/SAT scores to show you can at least handle the workload.
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