Revealing an old secret that applicants from flyover states also get the advantage of reduced standards. (SATs in the 1300s? For Harvard?)
Most, not all, Ivy athletes who matriculate score in the 1200 to 1300 range on the SAT. There are no sports scholarships in the Ivy League.
These are the old SAT scores I’m referencing...I have no idea how the new scoring numbers work. A 1300 SAT from back in the day (the 1980s) put you at the 90th percentile, which was more than adequate to do coursework at the Ivy level.