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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5180290, member: 12088"] I’m glad to hear that you have seen the process from the inside. So have I, as a current college prof with almost 40 years experience, who has served on admissions committees as a faculty advisor at three schools. Do the ADs at various schools push for certain applicants to get special consideration? Yes. But that’s not the same as letting anyone skate on grades or scores. I think you’re misunderstanding the nature of averages. Schools love to publish high averages on test scores or GPAs, but this is not a statement of requirements. It’s more a form of advertising. Lots of kids with higher averages don’t get in and others with lower ones do, and this isn’t just athletes. The fact is all schools have other, rather squishier measures as well and these are not specifically about athletics. And as you can imagine, the use of these other measures involves a constant tug of war between the faculty and various admins. And I can tell you that 1270 [B]is[/B] a shiny SAT and would get non-athletes into every school I’ve ever worked at. On the flip side, I personally know kids who had perfect SATs and GPAs above 4.0 who didn’t get into some schools. I am familiar with the NCAA rules and though these appear to suggest that athletes are measured on a different scale, in reality the standards turn out to differ very little from non-athletic admissions, and in practice don’t differ at all. The NCAA is concerned to head off the appearance of special treatment. But in practice, it wouldn’t really matter. [/QUOTE]

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