The Best Sports

aberdeen
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:21:36 +0000

Every Ivy League school has a football team and each year every team in the league must replace players whose eligibility has expired after four years. That means each team needs freshman candidates for football. In my opinion, having been a football recruit at one time, I know that Yale coaches like their other Ivy counterparts have to work hard to recruit athletes who can fit Yale’s Academic Index. Yale coaches attempt to recruit (from a pool of hundreds) about 30 talented high school football players who they think will meet the Admissions Department criteria for a potential student. Tennis and soccer team coaches probably present the Admissions Office with a smaller list-those teams have fewer players. Overall, in my opinion, Yale attempts to recruit the best students first and this means the coaches have to be precise in the candidates they present to Admissions. I would think that football gets more recruits because on every Ivy League campus it is the sport with the most players.