Upper middle class family claiming “full ride (sports) scholarship” to small D3 private college?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

You're actually teaching your own lesson here. Kids have to become the best version of themselves. Colleges need a wide variety of such kids. Some of them will be great students. Some of them will be great athletes. No kid can check every box. If the schools you want don't seem to value your kid, try shopping different schools. I did so myself, and it turned out better than I could have imagined.

Not T20s/Ivies.

Again, those schools don't value your kid because they don't need to. Those places are pay to play unless you have need-based aid. If you want your kid to be recruited as a _student_ and offered big-time merit aid, you need to go to a different range of institutions. I did. I've never been sorry

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

LOL, indeed. Tell your kid to enjoy soccer and then schlepping pharma to my cardiologist son.

[Anonymous]

To the college-bound children: I apologize for the behavior of the parents on this board.

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A lot of parents falsely call a “full tuition” scholarship a “full ride.” It’s annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:To the college-bound children: I apologize for the behavior of the parents on this board.

Eh. Some people deserve it. And it’s not the college bound kid - it’s the parent.

We have a parent in our neighborhood-would totally pull some crap like this. None of us really like her. She talks about her brilliant kid and her athletics constantly. The kid is bright, no doubt, but not athletic at all. It’s kinda funny. Anyway, if she ever did this, I would absolutely 100% call her out on it. Just to see her squirm.

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Anonymous wrote:If the choice is small school in the middle of nowhere for free or small school in the middle of nowhere for 50k a year it doesn't matter if you are UMC, paying for college in scenario is asanine and quite frankly none of your business. They throw money at kids for a reason, D3 sports is not a cakewalk... all of the extra time and energy for none of the great facilities and playing for nobody. It's basically club ball with a lot of parents in folding chairs on the grass. I know one kid that went to play at some no-name school with 400 students and they had to farm their own food. They were miserable.

Name the school or it didn't happen. And the school can't be Berea.

Not Berea and it did happen. You not believing it is irrelevant.

Please name the school. I've spent a lot of time in higher ed and am unfamiliar with any school where kids are farming their own food.

Also, did the school only have one sports team? As you know, 400 is VERY small for a college and fairly difficult to field multiple teams off that.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about division 3 schools and athletic recruiting. Is this possible?

They are on the lower end of upper middle class. No hooks. Their senior is a good not great athlete. And not an especially noteworthy student. She was not in the most advanced AP courses and her parents kept having her retake the ACT and SAT because her scores were so mediocre. Best ACT sitting was 26 and she was too embarrassed to reveal SAT scores.

Boy are you a Nosy Nelly…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Some kids may stop playing but, barring extenuating circumstances, they are not losing their merit aid. This isn't D1.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

LOL, indeed. Tell your kid to enjoy soccer and then schlepping pharma to my cardiologist son.

you clearly do not get out much.

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Anonymous wrote:Ffs, either congratulate them or mind your own business.

Why would you congratulate someone who is lying to your face?

You have issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Some kids may stop playing but, barring extenuating circumstances, they are not losing their merit aid. This isn't D1.

Even with the merit aid, private college is very expensive. Nobody is going for free. These travel sports parents living through their kids lie and exaggerate everything. The rose loses its bloom fast when the kid takes agency doesn’t want to play a sport anymore & they’re homesick at the podunk college because all of their high school friends are at a fun and cheaper state school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was incumbent upon you to go to your friend's house, knock on their door, and demand of them to reveal their embarassingly low SAT score.

Who are they fooling? Hopefully, armed with this information you cant make up a sandwich board and parade around your town letting everyone know what's happening.

If a senior is still prepping and retaking the SAT deep into senior year I can assure you they are not going to college for free anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Independence away from parents and partying plays a part — but most D3 kids who quit their sport do it because they start having sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Of course they don’t tell their parents that. They tell their parents excuses like the coach is a jerk, teammates are bullies, and they need the time to study more and join campus clubs.

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Did I miss the comment on which sport it was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about division 3 schools and athletic recruiting. Is this possible?

They are on the lower end of upper middle class. No hooks. Their senior is a good not great athlete. And not an especially noteworthy student. She was not in the most advanced AP courses and her parents kept having her retake the ACT and SAT because her scores were so mediocre. Best ACT sitting was 26 and she was too embarrassed to reveal SAT scores.

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