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[quote=Anonymous]They 100% do.

A few years ago, my son, who was coming from a very good K-8 and was a phenomenal student ( 98/ 100 GPA, 99% SSAT), elected to student government, volunteered, played in orchestra, interviews very well … good ( not great ) athlete was waitlisted at every single Big 5 school.

It was the same 3 or 4 kids in his class that got accepted at every single school they applied to including the Big 5s, and they all had one thing in common: they were all great athletes with D1 college recruitment potential.
Of course they were also good students and good kids overall.

But between a kid with a 98/100 GPA who is a good athlete and one with a 85-90/100 GPA who is a great athlete , selective schools will almost always choose the latter.

Why? Because the great athlete will get recruited at an Ivy or Top 25 school, and then the school can boast that they have X number of kids admitted to those schools and boost their college matriculation statistics.

This is just the reality. None of this is supposed to put elite athletic kids down ( my second child falls is nationally ranked in their sport and falls in that category ). It takes a ridiculously amount of discipline and hard work from athletic kids to reach elite status and high schools recognize and reward that. [/quote]

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