<p>Each year, the NCAA tracks the classroom performance of student-athletes on every Division I team through the annual scorecard of academic achievement, known as the APR. The rate measures eligibility, graduation and retention each semester or quarter and provides a clear picture of the academic performance in each sport.</p>
<p>Of the 62 schools that have received Public Recognition Awards each of the eight years of the program, the Ivy League is the only Division I conference to have every school in its conference recognized.</p>
<p>Ivy League may not win many major sport championships, but it dominates here.</p>
<p>My biggest thing with the release/promotion of the APR is that it usually clumps all the sports together at one school and that it includes all members of the team … including the backups to the bench warmers.</p>
<p>Let’s say Big State U’s football team has a terrible Progress report. But the overall school score will be boosted when combined with the fencing team and the skiing team.</p>
<p>And let’s say Big State U’s mens basketball team’s report is not too bad. I’d rather see the report for just the starting five. That’s gives us a much more accurate insight.</p>
<p>I don’t want to pick on any one school so I won’t name it. But during one APR period for a top men’s basketball team, not one player had graduated. Not one. Including the scrubs. Not one single player managed to finish toward a degree.</p>
<p>on a sport by sport basis,I think a few schools might be in for a bigger surprise. Some of the haves might just find themselves on the have not list especially when inferences are made to have a starting line up versus a student who obviously didn’t pass/take the TOEFL exam before they were admitted to the university.</p>
<p>On another note, as far as graduation rates go in the sports that have a payday at the end of competition-football/basketball/baseball/hockey/soccer/track & field/wrestling/golf–not sure about volleyball I think you’ll be hard pressed to see 100 graduation rates in both mens & womens categories. Those sports are also probably revenue producing in addition to generating visibility points. </p>
<p>It’s interesting because 100 years ago(thru the 1920’s) the schools that hold themselves out to be the bastions of academia where athletic factories and academic scholarship was somewhat secondary, now that other competitors have taken over that arena, they tend to downplay the importance of sports when it was one of there big exposure and promotion tools previously.</p>
<p>Certainly “there are lies, damn lies and statistics” (Mark Twain), but the NCAA can measure whatever they want to measure in this report. I’d certainly like to see the details you folks suggest, but I don’t think we’ll get it.</p>
<p>In this case, the APR is a very general indication, and it should be looked at with respect to yearly trends at a school or a conference IMHO. Clearly the Ivy conference is going to do well here which is no surprise to anyone. But, I’m dying to see how my alma mater (non-Ivy) scored with our very recent NCAA successes in football, basketball, lacrosse and baseball. We went D1 about 4 years ago. I’m real curious to see what that trending looks like. The full report is out next week.</p>
<p>I’m confused. Everything I can find on the APR indicates that the calculation only includes students receiving athletic scholarships. Ivy League schools don’t offer athletic scholarships. Is there special rule to work around this?</p>
<p>^ I noticed that, too. My guess is that they use the same students that are coded as athletic recruits for AI calculation purposes in the APR calculation</p>
<p>Well if it’s about athletic scholarships than the Ivies couldn’t figure in the equation, but I think they get a pass just to make the review fair and balanced by making it a participating athletes evaluation.</p>
<p>So, how would the APR look for only those schools granting athletic scholarships?</p>
<p>Good news to this parent’s ears.
K1 loves the U. AND K1 has been a National title winner.
Loves the U, loves the team.</p>
<p>K1 is home this summer - just landed and outstanding summer job/internship.</p>
<p>The stat doesn’t surprise me…admit stats for the ivies are more rigorous than those for many other D1s so it follows that success in college would be natural. The kids play for the love of the game, not for the “paycheck” aka scholarship.</p>