S/o obscure sport or talent for college admissions

[Anonymous]

Goalie for soccer, lacrosse or field hockey - good goalies are always fought over by teams

[Anonymous]

Women's field events...pole vault, discus, shot put, long jump, triple jump, high jump

[Anonymous]

85% of girls golf scholarships go unclaimed. If you have a daughter, get her into golf.

[Anonymous]

BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women's field events...pole vault, discus, shot put, long jump, triple jump, high jump

And hurdlers, both male and female.

Also, curling is the new fencing.

[Anonymous]

Face off for lacrosse

[Anonymous]

Rugby and cricket are the new lacrosse and fencing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fencing
Sailing
Equestrian

Your rich white people sports!

As a mom of an equestrian, I would say it doesn’t really help. There are a very few NCAA teams. Most are IHSA, and the schools don’t heavily recruit.

[Anonymous]

women's hockey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fencing
Sailing
Equestrian

Your rich white people sports!

As a mom of an equestrian, I would say it doesn’t really help. There are a very few NCAA teams. Most are IHSA, and the schools don’t heavily recruit.

Not to mention to get recruited for NCAA you need to be placing in the BigEq finals. Which means you are probably spending a few hundred grand per year on the sport. It is hardly a worthwhile investment. A large donation would be much smarter if you are doing it for the purpose of college admissions advantages.

[Anonymous]

Auto racing. Junior license at 12 yo. Golf since 6 yo. Opposite ends of the sports spectrum. Didn't do it for apps but maybe it will help? DS 16

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Anonymous wrote:The daughter of a friend of mine learned to do taxes and did volunteer work filing returns for the elderly.

She was admitted to Yale.

Is this her essay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/your-money/college-essay-topic-money-social-class.html

Yes--what a surprise to see that her essay on her volunteer work was published.

Her father did go to Yale--per another PP--but legacy status doesn't get you that far these days, just a bit of a boost. The really smart daughter of a friend of mine with outstanding ECs who was a double legacy from Harvard didn't even make it to the wait list there.

Just because your friend's kid didn't make it doesn't mean that legacy student is a "minor" boost.

How much of a boost do they get? A 2011 study of 30 elite institutions found that the children of undergraduate alumni ("primary legacies") were, on average, 45.1% more likely to get in.
Yale says it admits 20 to 25% of legacy applicants. It admitted 6.7% overall this year.

[Anonymous]

My sibling was recruited and got recruitment admissions in two sports. But don’t get the impression it’s actually that hard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Goalie for soccer, lacrosse or field hockey - good goalies are always fought over by teams

because that's an easy path...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The daughter of a friend of mine learned to do taxes and did volunteer work filing returns for the elderly.

She was admitted to Yale.

Is this her essay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/your-money/college-essay-topic-money-social-class.html

Yes--what a surprise to see that her essay on her volunteer work was published.

Her father did go to Yale--per another PP--but legacy status doesn't get you that far these days, just a bit of a boost. The really smart daughter of a friend of mine with outstanding ECs who was a double legacy from Harvard didn't even make it to the wait list there.

Just because your friend's kid didn't make it doesn't mean that legacy student is a "minor" boost.

How much of a boost do they get? A 2011 study of 30 elite institutions found that the children of undergraduate alumni ("primary legacies") were, on average, 45.1% more likely to get in.
Yale says it admits 20 to 25% of legacy applicants. It admitted 6.7% overall this year.

There have been other threads on this. I don't know what percentage of legacy applicants are accepted at Yale.

But there have been studies saying that legacy admits do as well or better than non-legacy admits. Legacy applicants tend to have very high GPAs and SATs and, very often, are excellent in a recruited sport, a factor that means way more than legacy status. The girl in question is a legacy admit who did not get in on sports, an increasing rarity among legacy admits.