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Subject: Re: Malachi Hosely Author: IvySportsJunkie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:46:43 12/09/24 Mon In reply to: Know-it-all 's message, "Malachi Hosely" on 20:06:26 11/23/24 Sat Drew2411 - I do not doubt you have connections with many high school coaches. That said, I strongly disagree with your statement that it is much easier to get in the Ivy League as a recruited athlete today than decades ago. At Ivy games, they have large tailgates set aside for returning former varsity athletes. We also get together for various reunions, such as celebration anniversaries of our Ivy Championship teams. These events allow us to gather across several generation of classes of Ivy athletes to catch up and discuss various topics. When we get together, a common discussion item is how we recognize that so many of us would have minimal chance of meeting today's far more rigorous academic standards for the current Ivy teams. To be more specific, our former varsity teams each had a number of athletes with either below 3.0 GPA in high school or well below 600 SAT scores. Even adjusting for the upward curves in the current standards for SAT and GPAs, these formerly Ivy recruited athletes would have Zero chance of passing admissions today. To further illustrate how much tougher it is to get into our Ivy schools, let’s look at the admissions rate trends for Ivy League universities over the past 25 years. Using Harvard and Yale, the 1997 admissions rate was 12 percent for Harvard and 19 percent for Yale. By 2017, the admissions rates had declined to 5 percent for Harvard and 7 percent for Yale. In 2024 for the class of 2028, Harvard’s admissions acceptance rate was down to 3.6 percent whereas Yales rate was only 3.7 percent. It is brutally tough to get into the Ivies today. If you look at admissions rates in the 1970s and 1980s, the admissions acceptance rates were even significantly higher. Bottom line, it clearly is far more difficult for both the general student body and the recruited athletes to get admitted today to the Ivies as compared to prior generations. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]