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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can give insight into Ivy League only. This doesn’t apply for other D1 schools and I only have a little D3 experience with NESCAC schools. I have an athlete at Yale and another Ivy that I won’t name because then it’s easy to figure out who my kid is.

Every team does not have all HS kids with 3.9s. But some/many do, especially on the women’s teams. Ivy League schools manage their teams and admissions differently depending on the size of the school and the sport. So at DD #2’s school, sports like football and hockey have different standards and leeway than cross country or gymnastics because the latter have established that they can get the right caliber of athlete without compromising on a very high GPA. They also allocate pre-reads and recruits differently team by team and year by year. Some sports (rowing, squash) have a lot of international recruits that make it harder to know what’s really going on academically.

What year is your child, and what sport? Are the D1 schools Ivy or t20? If they’re a sophomore and this is an Ivy, they’re just putting your kid into the wide part of the funnel and you won’t really know where these conversations are going until at least this summer.[/quote]

Junior. One D1 is just outside top 21 and the other is not a top 20. The D3's run the gamut of selective to not (they offer different things, in terms of opportunities). I'd rather not say the sport but it's not a big one like softball, soccer, but also not super niche ones like squash or rowing.

And interestingly, USNWR has some of these schools ave. gpa as 3.9 but different pages (like Niche and others, as I know everyone has views as which are better) has the same schools as less than that for the average.

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