<p>here is a link to a discussion on the parents forum:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=121026&highlight=recruited+athletes[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=121026&highlight=recruited+athletes</a></p>
<p>Here is Dartmouth news-Facts on Admissions, Financial Aid and Football </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/12/27.html[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/12/27.html</a></p>
<p>It states:</p>
<p>*The athletic admissions process in the Ivy League is governed by a wide range of policies and regulations. The central feature in this regulation is the academic index (AI). This is a measure consisting of three parts using the high school rank or GPA, combined with the highest SAT I scores, combined with the three highest SAT II scores. All Ivy schools are obligated to use the exact same methodology in calculating AIs. In admitting students who are recruited as athletes in one of the 33 “Ivy championship” sports, each school has numerical limits (depending on the number of sports it offers), and an AI goal that is a function of the mean AI for its entire student body (i.e., four classes). The AI goal is one standard deviation from this mean. Most Ivy schools have very similar AI targets. Because the eight Ivy student bodies have slightly different profiles, their AI targets are very similar but not identical. In addition, there is a minimum AI, or floor, below which schools cannot admit an athlete without special dispensation from the League.<br>
*</p>
<p>From:</p>
<p>ALUMNI COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON ENROLLMENT AND ADMISSIONS
MAY 20, 2005
SUMMARY</p>
<p>C. Athletic Recruitment</p>
<p> Class of 2009 has 211 recruited athletes (compare to 188 in Class of 2008)</p>
<p> Explanation of Academic Index and how applied for recruited athletes; slightly different and more complex formula used for football players</p>
<p> Academic Index is formula that takes into account athletes standardized test scores and high school grade point average; recruiting rules govern the range in which an athletes AI must fall in order to be accepted</p>
<p> E.g.: Maximum AI is 240, and as a group, all matriculating recruited athletes must average within one standard deviation (13-15 points) from the mean AI of the entire class (214) so, at least 200.</p>
<p> Ivy League recruitment rules applied uniformly to all institutions but different schools may have different AI (Harvard, Yale and Princeton have a higher AI than Dartmouth; Brown and Cornell have a lower AI)</p>
<p> Bottom line: recruited athletes are athletes of national/international/Olympic caliber and must basically be good students with respectable standardized test scores.</p>
<p><a href=“http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/leadership/council/meetings/enroll-admissions.htm[/url]”>http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/leadership/council/meetings/enroll-admissions.htm</a></p>
<p>NCAA Self-Study Academic Integrity - Dartmouth College</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/ncaacert/ncaa-academic.pdf[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/ncaacert/ncaa-academic.pdf</a></p>
<p>There are a couple of parents whose kid’s were recuited as well as a few atheletes who occassionally post. Maybe they will chime in to help you out.</p>
<p>If all else fails, go to the parent forum as there are a number of parents who have gone through the recruitment process with their kids who can answer your questions.</p>
<p>I hope this helps</p>