<p>The author of the article made a mistake. Ivy League Conference Rules stipulate that all schools – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, UPenn, and Cornell – cannot give an athlete MORE in financial aid than a non-athelete, so ALL financial aid is based upon need. See: [The</a> Ivy League](<a href=“http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/information/psa/index]The”>http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/information/psa/index)</p>
<p>The principles that govern admission of Ivy students who are athletes are the same as for all other Ivy applicants. Each Ivy institution:</p>
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<li><p>admits all candidates including athletes on the basis of their achievements and potential as students and on their other personal accomplishments;</p></li>
<li><p>provides financial aid to all students only on the basis of need, as determined by each institution; and,</p></li>
<li><p>provides that no student be required to engage in athletic competition as a condition of receiving financial aid.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Admissions decisions will be communicated only by official written notification from Admissions Offices, by notification in Early Action, Early Decision or “regular” processes, or by “likely letters” after October 1, which are confirmed by one of those notifications. No other indication of a possible positive admissions result is or should be considered reliable.</p>