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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your goal for them to 
a) get a sports scholarship to college?
b) to have sports participation be a "hook" for their application to college, but no actual scholarship? 
c) or to play in college regardless of how it impacts applications/scholarships?

If the goal is a) acknowledge that the chances of this working out are exceedingly slim.  For soccer, there are about 200 division 1 schools with about 10 scholarships per school.  So 2000 soccer scholarships, but split that by 4 years, and it is down to 500.  Is your kid going to be the among the 500 best kids their age in the country and beyond in 10 years?   There are fewer scholarships for swimming, but also fewer swimmers, but it is still extremely slim chances.  Are both parents tall with wide shoulders?  If not, the chances of swimming scholarship even smaller.

If the goal is c), then it is very possible to be a walk on at a division 3 school if you love the sport and have done it for years for both soccer and swimming. [/quote]

On the men's side, the soccer scholarships are going to internationals not American players [/quote]

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