<p>@varska,</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. So, what I’m getting is that the only floor that absolutely applies to any individual athlete is 176. I imagine that there would be few, if any athletes, that would be that low. Using a calculator available on the Internet, that computes to something along the lines of a 3.0 with a 1700 SAT and 570+ on two SAT subject tests.</p>
<p>There were two gentlemen in my son’s graduating class this year who were recruited to Ivies, and I know that their objective scores and grades looked a lot closer to the overall average of their schools than to the scores that would yield a 176.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen at our high school, folks who are recruited to the Ivies are just moving from one group - “qualified applicant with a typical [low] chance of admission” - to another group - “qualified applicant who is all but guaranteed admission.” It’s a big step up, but we’re still dealing with the universe of top-tier students.</p>