[Mick]

That's the opposite of the Ivy League.  It is mandated to the athletic directors that there's a limit to the number of exceptional athletes that they can take (assuming a normal academic distribution).

The Ivy League uses an academic index which incentivizes coaches to bring on some really outstanding academic recruits with little to no chance of playing so that they can squeeze in some better athletic recruits. Just in case you were wondering who the kids sitting at the end of the bench are.

And that's how the Ivies have 18% varsity athletes in their classes. Because most of them are decent athletes but academically gifted.

Here's a pretty good article on how the AI is calculated, written by an organization aimed at helicopter parents from a sport that Stanford used to support. Each of the Ivies need to achieve specific AI averages by sport, across all sports, and across grades. So the football AI needs to have an average AI, and it needs to fit into the overall athletic program, and the athletes from all years are factored into account. Stanford takes a similar, less formal approach.

https://www.fencingparents.org/college-b...of-fencers

[Mick]

That's the opposite of the Ivy League.  It is mandated to the athletic directors that there's a limit to the number of exceptional athletes that they can take (assuming a normal academic distribution).

The Ivy League uses an academic index which incentivizes coaches to bring on some really outstanding academic recruits with little to no chance of playing so that they can squeeze in some better athletic recruits. Just in case you were wondering who the kids sitting at the end of the bench are.

And that's how the Ivies have 18% varsity athletes in their classes. Because most of them are decent athletes but academically gifted.

Here's a pretty good article on how the AI is calculated, written by an organization aimed at helicopter parents from a sport that Stanford used to support. Each of the Ivies need to achieve specific AI averages by sport, across all sports, and across grades. So the football AI needs to have an average AI, and it needs to fit into the overall athletic program, and the athletes from all years are factored into account. Stanford takes a similar, less formal approach.

https://www.fencingparents.org/college-b...of-fencers