<p>“This is still much much lower than the rest of the student body”</p>
<p>True, but what if “the rest’” was also guaranteed admission under the same relaxed standard? If you’re a recruited athlete, you don’t have the incentive to kill the SATS the way regular applicants do. Why study, buy Kaplan, pay for Princeton Review, retake, retake, etc when good colleges are already courting you as early as eighth, ninth grade? It may not be fair to judge athletes smarts based on SATS when most applicants would likely also have lower “I only need to pass” scores given similar circumstances.</p>