@JBStillFlying Whether student athletes are athletics or academics focused depends entirely on the culture and quality of the school they attend. A D1 tennis player at Columbia or Yale competing with schools like Stanford and UVA will still have to fulfill the Core Curriculum or Directed Studies regardless of their athletic obligations.
The whole point of the Ivy League, snooty as it may sound, is to essentially quarantine America’s oldest and most esteemed universities from the perils of sports-based admissions and to maintain the highest level of academic performance. Ivy League football teams are barred from competing in the postseason despite being the progenitors of the American game of football.
HYPS shouldn’t be grouped together when it comes to athletics. Athletes in the Ivy League are competing for the most part in the D1 subdivision and rarely pursue professional sports careers.