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Most coaches adhere strictly to the index, so there is little hope of admission to one of the Ivies for a student-athlete who falls just under the cutoff point...
Another problem with the index is that it applies only to athletes. A talented musician or the child of an alumnus who falls slightly below the cutoff point still has a good chance of being admitted to an Ivy school, but a talented athlete with the same scores cannot. According to Cingiser, there have been times when basketball players who fell below the cutoff point could not be recruited by Brown even though they would have been admitted if they weren't athletes...
...Academic Index categorizes kids too generally," Cormier says. "Sometimes a kid is hurt because he goes to a good school where his class rank is lower. The kid may still be qualified, but we can't look into those exceptions...
Cingiser himself, who was one of the finest basketball players in Brown history while maintaining a respectable level of academic success, noted that he would have fallen under the cutoff point if the Index had been in effect when he applied to college...
...result of the Academic Index is a sharp reduction in the number of basketball players that are eligible to play for Ivy League teams. "There's no doubt about it that the Al keeps our pool down," Cormier says. "All the Ivies are going after the same kids...