Lower SAT Scores For Athletes?

riverrunner
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:18:16 +0000

Hopefully you’ll hear from a swimmer who can give you specific advice on this. That’s a selective bunch of schools you’ve picked out.

The evolving opinion on this board (they’ll correct me if I’m wrong :)) is that the SAT you will need depends on several things:


How fast you can swim. It’s an inverse relationship. The faster you swim, the lower your SAT can be.
The SATs of the other admitted students. This is a guess on my part, but I would think you can’t be way below the middle 50% and expect to get past admissions. Look at the stats for admitted students for your schools and see where you fit.
How smart the rest of the swimmers are. Some sports draw smart kids. Maybe swimming is one of these. If all the other fast swimmers who are applying to your list have high SATs you’d better have one too.


Best wishes.