Most people look at the Ivy League, shrug and say “Great, that’ll never happen”. They falsely believe they don’t have a shot at playing at a school like that, but what most people don’t is that recruited athletes at Ivy League schools get a bit more wiggle room than regular student applicants.
Let me explain.
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The Academic Index AKA Band System
The Ivy League uses something called the Academic Index or AI to rank student-athletes’ admissibility relative to their athletic talent. The AI is different at every Ivy League school and will be different year to year as well. It breaks recruits down into four academic bands - from Band A or Band 1 to Band D or Band 4 (each school is different with what they use as numbers or letters)
Roughly here is the breakdown of what each band requires based off of helping student-athletes get offered to schools in the Ivy for the better part of a decade:
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