Colgate's NCAA D1 Cert. Self Study-- prospective student athletes should read this

Papa_Chicken
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:40:00 +0000

gellino-- yes, I was surprised, too…just searched on SATs on Colgate’s web. Can’t explain these numbers vs yours…what source are your’s derived from?

I’ve been searching for more of these NCAA reports from other universities & have found a dozen or 2, which I hope to post sometime soon on the College Search forum. Interesting that the 2 Ivies I’ve found so far, Harvard & Brown, do not exhibit the SAT numbers…Browns says they’ve redacted them & Harvard just leaves them all as 0’s. Other schools use GPAs in lieu of SATs for the standard NCAA tables…so not much consistency.

Haven’t thoroughly studied the other schools’ reported SAT scores for male & female athletes (& total freshmen) yet, but I recall that William & Mary had the same kind of gender disparity.

Now that I have Colgate’s averages, here’s a year-for-year comparison with 2 other schools I’ve studied heavily, Midd & Tufts (sources are their online fact books):

Incoming Fall / All M+V(CR) SAT avg…Colgate / Middlebury* / Tufts
2005 / 1349 / 1349 / 1399
2004 / 1337 / 1356 / 1368
2003 / 1334 / 1334 / 1333

*excludes ~15% of class that were their February enrollees

All started in 2003 at about the same spot for incoming class (assuming the Febs do not skew the averages for Midd one way or the other), Colgate & Midd were about even for the latest complete data set, 2005 (although Midd’s 2006 numbers were higher at 1364, Tufts hanging at roughly slightly above 1400, no available Colgate 2006 numbers), and Tufts has accelerated ahead.