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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would ask D3 and ivies. Recruited Ivy athletes don’t have scholarships and their commitment to a team isn’t binding after admission. I would guess 20% of recruited* athletes I know at ivies disappear from their sport after freshman year. I know a coach at an Ivy and it makes his job really complicated- every year he gets 1-3 slots for his athletes. When he has recruited athletes quit, that reduces his slots with Admissions for the next year. Anticipating who wants to stay with a hard, tiring sport and a demanding course load vs. who is using it as a side door to an elite university is not easy.

*using “recruited” in the Ivy way- they don’t sign NLI but rather commit to the admissions process with a school with the understanding that they will get a likely letter and go through the preferred admission process [/quote]

My son and his cousin were talking about playing their sports in college - they are rising juniors. Both are starting the recruiting process. My son can’t imagine not playing, and was flabbergasted to hear his cousin say matter of factly that he intended to use his sport to get into a more prestigious school then he could get into if he wasn’t a recruited athlete, and then quit freshman year.

I realize kids get to college and then decide they can’t handle the time commitment, or decide they want something different. That’s fine. I was a 4 year college athlete, and I understand. But what my nephew is planning is a little icky. Hate the game, not the player, I know, but still.[/quote]

That’s just the beginning of ick. Your nephew is playing the game and would be in good company with my DH’s teammates who bailed at Princeton in week 2 of their sport. They learned from family and prep school how to play the game from Day 1 and applied similar strategies for banking jobs, house hunts, etc. [/quote]

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