UC Berkeley vs. Ivy Leagues

Desiree2
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 20:26:41 +0000

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Well, the Ivies also do this. Ivies give boosts to athletes, URM, large donors, legacy, students from poor families and first gen. While UCs are actually better in this aspect because they admit less people that are less qualified since UCs dont recruit athletes, legacies, donors, and legacies. UCs only give boost to URM or people from poor families.

Especially at Ivies like Harvard or Yale where sports are a big thing, about 20% of the incoming class is academic recruits (about 200 - 300 students per year). I did not just pull this out of thin air, a parent of an Ivy athlete wrote a post about this sometime back saying that about 15%-25% of an Ivy’s incoming class are recruited athletes.