I hate youth and high school sports

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

That's crazy. Their academic index would be in the basement.

They normally want recruited athlete at ivy to have at least a 1350+ SAT score because there is nothing preventing the athlete from dropping out of the team and the chances they have to drop out to study get higher with lower SAT scores.

3.0 and 1100 SAT at ivy? Geez, why would they do that?

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

Fake news

Why do you think athletes don't get preferential treatment?

The above person is certainly lying. Tennis is a very small world

You know nothing about tennis. Christian Alshorn, a five star tennis recruit, got accepted to the University of Chicago with a <1200 SAT score, and several Ivies.

How do you know his SAT score was <1200?
Also he got accepted to chicago as a transfer from UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

Fake news

Why do you think athletes don't get preferential treatment?

The above person is certainly lying. Tennis is a very small world

You know nothing about tennis. Christian Alshorn, a five star tennis recruit, got accepted to the University of Chicago with a <1200 SAT score, and several Ivies.

Wrong . UVA accepted him then he got kicked out and transferred

But why did chicago take him with a <1200 SAT?
Does the portal not care about SAT scores?

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

Fake news

Why do you think athletes don't get preferential treatment?

The above person is certainly lying. Tennis is a very small world

You know nothing about tennis. Christian Alshorn, a five star tennis recruit, got accepted to the University of Chicago with a <1200 SAT score, and several Ivies.

So now the story is about Alshorn and not your two unicorn kids

And it's not about IVY, it's about a real D1 school UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

That's crazy. Their academic index would be in the basement.

They normally want recruited athlete at ivy to have at least a 1350+ SAT score because there is nothing preventing the athlete from dropping out of the team and the chances they have to drop out to study get higher with lower SAT scores.

3.0 and 1100 SAT at ivy? Geez, why would they do that?

This person is a gigantic liar. These type of scores were possible maybe 30 years ago

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I am dealing with it with my 11 year old. I grew up playing sports. He has played every sport since 7. This year he wanted to join a travel league with that a couple of his friends played on. I absolutely hate it!! He plays games all day sat and we travel at least an hour every week. They add games and change schedules out of nowhere all the time. It has been 4 months and I just want it to end. I want my weekends back. I'm over it and will not give up my life for the next 5 years. It's the most annoying thing, and the parents...Jesus get a life

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

That's crazy. Their academic index would be in the basement.

They normally want recruited athlete at ivy to have at least a 1350+ SAT score because there is nothing preventing the athlete from dropping out of the team and the chances they have to drop out to study get higher with lower SAT scores.

3.0 and 1100 SAT at ivy? Geez, why would they do that?

This person is a gigantic liar. These type of scores were possible maybe 30 years ago

Also when you’re an athletic recruit you ED to the one school where you commit.

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Move to a small town. It is much less competitive than our large county-wide high school systems.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole system is ridiculous, and what is more ridiculous is that people support this broken system. You have to play for years just to make it into a high school JV team, and once you make it, you have to spend 20+ hours per week training. It takes time away from academics and other extracurricular.

And all of this time and money invested into sports is for nothing for most parents. Most kids will never play at the NCAA level. It doesn’t matter much for college admissions. I know a kid who has perfect grades and a 35 ACT who was a captain of the varsity football and lacrosse teams (and was class treasurer, NHS president, volunteered, and did part time work), and he got rejected from every remotely selective college. The Ivy Leagues, Notre Dame, Michigan, Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UNC, and UVA all rejected him

Lazy loser procrastinator detected

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And they will get in.

It always depends on how good you are. If you're a true 5 star then they'll do whatever they can to get you.

My classmate scored an 750 (total) on the SAT and didn't finish Algebra I. He got a full ride to Berkeley.

Cool you must be old as dirt

If you really believe NDs starting lineup are all taking ap classes and carrying high gpas in HS then you're delusional.

I think some of these parents are out of their minds. They really can’t make the distinction between athletes attending college and college students playing sports.

No they can't.

Truthfully, I think it makes them uncomfortable that the rules get stretched/broken for athletes. People who went to elite institutions don't want to accept it.

You think Allen Iverson had thegrades to go to Georgetown? Lol.

That's why the FBI case "Varsity Blues" was called a sting. Cause it hurts to talk about.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

That's crazy. Their academic index would be in the basement.

They normally want recruited athlete at ivy to have at least a 1350+ SAT score because there is nothing preventing the athlete from dropping out of the team and the chances they have to drop out to study get higher with lower SAT scores.

3.0 and 1100 SAT at ivy? Geez, why would they do that?

This person is a gigantic liar. These type of scores were possible maybe 30 years ago

Also when you’re an athletic recruit you ED to the one school where you commit.

If you are a great athlete - those are fine stats. Most of the rest of the team will maintain the average. Believe me. It's a bell curve.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest DS got accepted into several Ivies as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.0 GPA and 1100 on the SAT. My youngest DS got accepted by two Ivies, UCLA, and Berkeley, as a five-star tennis recruit with a 3.1 GPA and 1150 on the SAT.

That's crazy. Their academic index would be in the basement.

They normally want recruited athlete at ivy to have at least a 1350+ SAT score because there is nothing preventing the athlete from dropping out of the team and the chances they have to drop out to study get higher with lower SAT scores.

3.0 and 1100 SAT at ivy? Geez, why would they do that?

This person is a gigantic liar. These type of scores were possible maybe 30 years ago

Also when you’re an athletic recruit you ED to the one school where you commit.

If you are a great athlete - those are fine stats. Most of the rest of the team will maintain the average. Believe me. It's a bell curve.

Fine but you don’t apply to several ivies plus Berkeley plus ucla as a recruited athlete to all. You commit to one and they give you the admissions support. You don’t get admissions support from the coach as a recruited athlete at multiple schools.