<p>I’m sure that being an athlete, and committing to the ED process improves the chances of an applicant…but when you look at the results of the teams, it’s obvious that SWAT isn’t overriding the process to build sports programs. If you’re a top athlete with good grades and scores, I’d suggest you stand a much better chance of overriding an Ivy admissions process than the one at a top D3 liberal arts school. To build a great program, you need multiple kids with the same athletic abilities (ie Princeton’s NCAA championship in Field Hockey). You’ll never get that within 1,600 kids at such a competitive school.</p>