<p>I am giving athletes due credit- for sure some of them have top notch scores and gpa.
However, Stanford and Duke both report students accepted with very low scores.
Dukes shows students accepted with sat scores of 300-399 in sat sections
Stanford shows student accepted with sat score sections of 400-499 in sat sections.
They both show applicants admitted with 18-23.
If you need the link to the common data, I will post it - but it is right at the schools’ web sites. Anyway, I will look for that NYT article, but it should not be that hard to figure out that applicants with sat of 1200-1500 out of 2400 sat that are accepted at Stanford or Duke are athletes. Any good admissions office knows how valuable these top quality athletes are. Of course there are many athletes that also have great qualifications.
Usually, the superstar athlete spends so much time on athletics that it is hard to have great test scores. Maybe I’m missing it, but I always thought this kind of athletic recruiting at duke or stanford is pretty commonly known and makes complete sense.
P.S. the applicants that got into Duke itself reported scored 300-399 in sat sections, do you think they were just regular applicants?</p>