<p>What is the similarities and differences between being an Ivy League basketball player and being a low to mid major basketball player? Do the schools still provide athletes with free clothes and shoes?Athlete Stipend? Athlete dorms? Are any of the Ivy League sponsored by Nike and if yes then which schools? Is there still signing day for Ivy league commits where they sign the NLI (national letter of Intent) and put the hat on? whats the minimum score a ivy league recruited athlete needs to get on the ACT (specifically PENN)?</p>
<p>Ivies do not offer athletic scholarships. Therefore the NLI is irrelevant. No Ivy athlete signs the NLI. If this is acceptable to you, maybe we can go on to the other questions.</p>
<p>@fenwaypark yes I’m fine with that. Please go on.</p>
<p>Free clothes and shoes? Not supposed to do this at any NCAA school.</p>
<p>Athlete stipend? Not supposed to do this at any NCAA school, even though a rule change to allow it in football and basketball is being discussed. Ivies are not part of those discussions…if they don’t offer athletic scholarships, they aren’t going to offer stipends.</p>
<p>Athlete dorms? No. You can try to join a frat with teammates.</p>
<p>Nike sponsorship deals? Too lazy to check. At various times, various Ivy teams have worn uniforms with the Swoosh. Don’t know if these were arms-length or sponsorship deals.</p>
<p>Minimum ACT score for Penn. I do not know. You should become familiar with the academic index. <a href=“A Rare Glimpse Inside the Ivy League's Academic Index - The New York Times”>A Rare Glimpse Inside the Ivy League's Academic Index - The New York Times; Most of the references are to the SAT, but you should be able to do an SAT-ACT conversion.</p>
<p>I am going to guess that you have not been recruited by any Ivies yet, because if you were, you certainly would have known there are no athletic scholarships or NLI. If you are recruited, I would recommend that you emphasize topics of conversation other than stipends and free stuff.</p>
<p>Just to clarify two things:</p>
<p>Depends what you define as free clothes and shoes, some amount of apparel is given to athletes and given how blatantly it’s done, I’m sure it’s not an NCAA violation. Across my 4 years on the fencing team, I got team specific free apparel for working out/wearing under equipment that includes the following: 4 t shirts, 2 pair of shorts, 2 sweatshirts/2 pairs of sweatpants (1 of them actually was a set issued to all athletes, of course preference for sizing was granted to the more popular sports so my sweatpants would drag on the floor if I wore them and the waist was no where near tight enough to wear while active - they do make great pajama pants these days though), 2 pairs of fencing socks (aka soccer socks), and 1 set of warm ups that we were expected to wear on competition day and also made for a great IM flag football uniform in the colder months. Basketball probably gets more in addition to the actual uniform being provided by the school obviously. Brown is addidas, no idea what the other schools use.</p>
<p>Stipend: you do get a per diem for food when you travel - it’s on the order of $7/meal</p>
<p>None of the ivies have athlete dorms, but yes, several do have fraternities where most of the brothers are athletes. For example a large chunk of the football team is in Theta Delta Chi at Brown.</p>
<p>My son is a varsity athlete at Princeton. They definitely receive apparel as is related to their sport. I believe Princeton receives some sponsorship from Nike but I can’t confirm that. When they are away competing they are given stipends for meals. Athletes at Princeton are housed together with non-athletes although you can join an eating club (similar to greek life but with some differences) in your upperclassman years. </p>
<p>Many of the current varsity athletes had scholarship offers at other D1 schools and were given likely letters to essentially ensure their admission to Princeton. However there is no formal “signing day” as with other schools in the NCAA. @fenwaypark above is correct about the academic index. Ivy athletes must fall within this index in order to be able to compete in the Ivy League. Beyond that, the entire athletic department must fall within one standard deviation of the school as a whole. Therefore coaches will select athletes who are on the higher end of the index where possible, all other factors being equal. </p>
<p>I have heard that Yale has the most strict requirements for athletes’ academic standards. I have heard that at Yale each athlete must meet the one-single-standard-deviation criterion referred to by @cantiger, while at the other schools each team–as a whole, and the entire athletic program as a corollary–must meet the standard.</p>
<p>If this is correct, Ivies other than Yale could have a two-standard deviation player on the team “offset” by a top scholar on the same team…while this would not work at Yale. </p>
<p>Here’s an excerpt from a NYT article in 2011, </p>
<p>(Robin) Harris (Ivy League Executive director) also explained that certain sports are scrutinized separately: football, basketball and ice hockey, in particular. Football teams, which are allowed to support an average of 30 recruits a year in the admissions process, are also regulated in four A.I. bands spaced from low to high, with each band’s A.I. rising by about 10 points. Al Bagnoli, the Penn football coach, said last year that he was given 2 spots in the lowest band, 8 in the second band, 12 in the third and 8 in the highest.</p>
<p>Over all, there are hundreds of teams with A.I. averages well into the 200s. In a response to a commissioned report on Brown athletics issued this year, the university’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, said that for the four most recent admissions classes throughout the league, Brown had seven sports with average A.I.’s under 200; Dartmouth and Penn had 5; Columbia 3; Yale 1; and Harvard and Princeton none. Simmons did not mention Cornell in her written response. </p>
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<p>I have a friend who swims at Princeton, and he says basically the same thing with the scores: they have to have some really high scorers to balance out the kids that are more athletically competitive with lower scores. </p>