<p>Whenever this topic comes up, the scores keylyme cites for athletes s/he knows seem to come in on the lower end. I’m assuming this is due to the gender and sport in question. In our experience, though, the Ivies seemed to want over 700 on each section and on the SAT 2’s, though of course the greater the talent the greater the leeway I’m guessing. The recruits my D met on her OV’s who talked about their scores, all had scores 2100 and up for the SAT 1. However, there are a limited number of high-scoring, talented athletes, so I’d imagine come compromises are made if necessary on either the athletic ability or the academic qualifications.</p>