Our Mission
A recent article in The New Yorker magazine contained the following quote,
"... athletes have an acceptance rate to the Ivies at well over twice the rate of other students..."
IvyAthlete.com has one mission - to help the high school athlete use his or her athletic skills to get accepted into the Ivies or other elite college!
We achieve this mission by providing you with the Ivy League and Other Elite College Sports Recruiting E-Book which gives the high school athlete and his or her parents the kind of detailed "roadmap" that will greatly help them achieve this goal.
By the way, what is an E-Book? It is simple - you register as indicated and get immediate on-line access to the E-Book and Glossary for downloading, printing and/or on-line reading. Do not forget to review the E-Book Table of Contents.
If your son or daughter is a promising student athlete, the nation's top colleges will give him or her special priority over other student applicants with similar or even better academic records.
What does being recruited mean? Each year, many college team coaches are given thousands of admissions slots or openings that they assign to high school student athletes to play for their teams. It is more complicated than that but that is the essence. If your son or daughter gets one of these slots - they are admitted to that college. The days of the "walk-on" athlete who arrives on campus unrecruited and gets on an Ivy team are largely over — there are exceptions, but not many.
It is preferable, but not essential, that a high school student athlete's effort to be recruited by Ivy League and other elite college teams begin as early as his or her sophomore year.
By the fall of senior year, the recruiting lists for many such teams are complete- this is especially true for spring sports.
The primary objective of the parents and students aiming at an elite college sports team is for the student to get accepted by a top college and enjoy the greatest educational opportunity available - and, to be candid, most of us appreciate the long-term social and financial benefits for our children that being admitted into the Ivy League or other elite colleges may provide.
Another point - the Ivies and the other top schools have the best financial aid packages including generous scholarships, grants and loans. Most will accept you without regard to your financial situation ("need blind") and then work vigorously to meet your "need based" financial requirements.
In the Ivies and many other top colleges, your place in the college and your financial aid package are not impacted if for any reason you choose to discontinue playing your sport. This is the kind of detail we provide in the E-Book.
At a Yale admissions presentation for prospective freshmen, a parent inquired about the priority given student athlete applicants. The Yale admissions person responded with only three words - "Yale recruits athletes!"
Another anecdote - a young high school athlete and her college counselor were reviewing prior admissions from her high school to Dartmouth. Every acceptance was one of the following: a legacy (mom or dad went there), a minority or an athletic recruit! Think about it.
For your high school athlete to be recruited into an elite college team you must be proactive and become your child's advocate and cheerleader. We will guide you step-by-step through the process.
Women's lacrosse at Harvard, baseball at Amherst, rowing at Annapolis, cross country at Princeton, volleyball at Williams, swimming at Brown, field hockey at Wesleyan University and so many other elite college sports teams are looking to recruit your student athlete. Our job is to help you make this happen.
To paraphrase George Washington, "We mortals cannot command success, but we can deserve it."
Go for it!
Publisher
IvyAthlete.com
“… athletes have an acceptance rate
to the Ivies at well over twice the
rate of other students...”
- New Yorker Magazine
We focus on
Harvard, Williams, Brown, Amherst,
Air Force Academy, Dartmouth, Middlebury,
Yale, Pomona, Notre Dame, Wesleyan,
Cornell, Naval Academy at Annapolis, Trinity,
Columbia, Bowdoin, Military Academy at
West Point, Princeton, Stanford, Hamilton,
UPenn, Duke, Colby, USC, Coast Guard
Academy, Wellesley, Washington U.
(St. Louis), Tufts, Haverford, Carleton,
Chicago, Davidson, Colgate, Bates,
Vassar, Washington and Lee, Virginia,
Georgetown, Northwestern, Rice, Michigan
and other such elite colleges.