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St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY

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St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/24/2012 9:57:26 PM
St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 2 time all-state running back Darius Manora has picked up his first verbal offer today from the University of Pennsylvania. Manora has unofficial visits set for Stanford, Duke, Wake Forest and Boston College. He has interest from a number of IVY League schools because of his academic excellence. He currently holds a 4.0 GPA
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Re: St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/25/2012 12:20:50 PM
@bjoseph

A verbal offer from an Ivy school?

 

Since Ivy League schools don't give scholarships, then what is the offer of?

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Re: Re: St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/25/2012 1:08:37 PM
@Ignatius

They basically tell kids that they have a spot reserved for them on the team, subject to getting into the school. They can work to make the financing happen as well.

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Re: Re: Re: St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/25/2012 1:30:55 PM
@kohastings

Actually, I know that. I have been through the Ivy League process myself with three family members. At a time, I was almost an expert on the Ivy League Academic Index. The index is a formula derived from combining SAT scores and Class rank (GPA's play no role in it).

What they can do .... and have done to fend off other schools .. is to issue a "Likely Letter" that states that given evrything they know that the recruit is likely to gain admissions.

An interesting study was done a few years ago by a Princeton prof. He found that attending an Ivy school as a recruited athlete had no impact on the athlete post college career. Said another way, an Ivy League education isn't better than attending a State university for athletes in terms of the post college earning potential. They aren't as mart as their classmates who got in going the regular route and this shows up in their careers.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/25/2012 1:48:18 PM
@Ignatius

Well that is where this kid is different he is number 1 or 2 in his class. Very bright and will do well based on how well he has done academically at a very challanging school.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: St. Stephens/St. Agnes star gets verbal from IVY - 4/28/2012 5:07:02 PM
@Ignatius

Are you serious w/ your post? Whatever happened to just simply saying CONGRATS to a true student athlete. Your analysis is way to cynical. We are talking about a 16,17 or 18 year old kid w/ a shot at the IVY!

All that needs to be said is Congrats!! 

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