[Mick]

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Wait, Harvard now has lower entrance requirements for hoopsters than Stanford?

It never had higher entrance requirements; they have definitely come down.  We have had football recruits who did not get through admissions subsequently enroll at Harvard.

BC
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That's a little bit of a specious argument.  The recruit that Stanford turns down is unlikely to be a top-level Stanford recruit, whereas that same recruit for Harvard will be their best or second best recruit of the season.  The Ivy League has agreed upon a single set of averages grades and test scores that are binding across the Ivy League.  But within those averages, each has leeway to take one a recruit or two per year that are lower than the mean, as well as recruits that are considerably higher than the mean.  So I wouldn't draw any broad conclusions from a single prospect.
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Mick,
The Ivy League formula has been discussed here and in other places.  I have heard from Ivy League colleagues that Harvard, which at one point was at the top end of that formula has worked its way down to the middle/lower tier in order to raise some of their athletic programs.  So my guess, and it's just that, is that they have regressed more towards the the lower tier Ivy athletic admissions standards where they were likely on the high side before.
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I had two sons recruited to Princeton for minor sports, one graduated in 2014, one is there now.  During that process, I had a lengthy conversation with the Harvard Ass't AD who was in charge of getting athletes into the school.  We discussed the process across all of the sports, including football.  I'm confident that what I wrote is accurate.

[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=14748.msg159195#msg159195 date=1458774276]
[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=14748.msg159172#msg159172 date=1458755728]
[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=14748.msg159153#msg159153 date=1458742762]
Wait, Harvard now has lower entrance requirements for hoopsters than Stanford?

It never had higher entrance requirements; they have definitely come down.  We have had football recruits who did not get through admissions subsequently enroll at Harvard.

BC
[/quote]

That's a little bit of a specious argument.  The recruit that Stanford turns down is unlikely to be a top-level Stanford recruit, whereas that same recruit for Harvard will be their best or second best recruit of the season.  The Ivy League has agreed upon a single set of averages grades and test scores that are binding across the Ivy League.  But within those averages, each has leeway to take one a recruit or two per year that are lower than the mean, as well as recruits that are considerably higher than the mean.  So I wouldn't draw any broad conclusions from a single prospect.
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Mick,
The Ivy League formula has been discussed here and in other places.  I have heard from Ivy League colleagues that Harvard, which at one point was at the top end of that formula has worked its way down to the middle/lower tier in order to raise some of their athletic programs.  So my guess, and it's just that, is that they have regressed more towards the the lower tier Ivy athletic admissions standards where they were likely on the high side before.
[/quote]

I had two sons recruited to Princeton for minor sports, one graduated in 2014, one is there now.  During that process, I had a lengthy conversation with the Harvard Ass't AD who was in charge of getting athletes into the school.  We discussed the process across all of the sports, including football.  I'm confident that what I wrote is accurate.