TeachTrack

She would be competitive at Ivy League championships, I looked it up she would've placed 6th in the 100m and 10th in the 200m. and thank you for the info about scores needed..

TeachTrack

she would've been very competitive at Ivy League championships, placing 6th in the 100m and 10th in the 200m.
So the president is gone?

JHS

President Levin is leaving office at the end of the year, I believe. The search process for his successor is in full swing now.

It's true that Yale has taken some steps to reduce the emphasis on athletics the past few years, but that does not mean that it has abandoned competitive athletics by any means.

I am sure that a kid with appropriate grades and test scores, who would have been top-10 in two events at the Ivy Championships as a high school sophomore, and who looks like she is improving as expected during her junior year, would be a real candidate for recruitment by Yale or any other Ivy League team -- at least so long as it didn't have two or three sprinters better than she in its current freshman class. Regardless of who is president. However, she may decide that she likes one or another school better if there is more support for athletic teams there.

TeachTrack

she would be one of the fastest on the team right now... looked at the roster....

EarthPig

This is a very good article about the academic index and Ivy admissions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/sp...ath.html?_r=2&

If she gets one of the track coach's admission slots (and there aren't many of those), she will have a much, much easier time getting admitted.

Bear in mind that all college coaches contact countless kids, court many, and actually offer few an admissions slot. They dump many, so she can't think that she has one of the slots until she gets a likely letter.

Just for this reason, she should keep many schools in the game. If her times in high school are comparable to those at the Ivy championships, many, many schools will be interested in her.

By the way, I read somewhere (can't find the source right now) that Princeton's average academic index for athletes is 214, and the school's average overall if 228. I would guess that Yale's numbers are in the same range.