Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hardest sport is women volleyball for a scholarship
For scholarships, any sport where the Ivy League is strong will be hard, because Ivy League teams are not allowed to give athletic scholarships.
Athletes should be doing a sport because they love it, as scholarships are a crap shoot until you have invested years in the sport and know if you are a top athlete.
One thing that doesn’t seem to be discussed much is whether competing in a sport actually hurts if you’re not recruited. Being a varsity athlete in something like volleyball is a full time job — HS team, club, sand volleyball — it goes on all year. So far, my anecdotal experience is that the non-recruited varsity athletes aren’t doing that well in admissions, and it seems to be reflected in this board. The one that I know that did well had some very impressive & unusual ECs outside of sports. ADs say they want kids that show a depth of commitment, and they must know how much time sports takes, but I wonder if these kids run the risk of looking one-dimensional?
FWIW, I worry about this because I have a close family member who didn’t get into a school that should have been a match (had the stats and was a legacy) that had been devoted to volleyball, but wasn’t good enough (actually, very talented, but not tall enough) to be recruited.
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