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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you play in a revenue generating sport which means football or basketball, college sports are just another enjoyable activity to pursue. Think marching band, fraternities, engineering competitions, and the like. All power to you if that’s what you enjoy and it’s great that our colleges offer all these activities to enrich the experience. College soccer is no more no less. I hope people aren’t delusional about college sports.[/quote]

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Come back when recruited athletes no longer get a special admissions process and are in the same bucket as students in marching band. [/quote]
[b]Athletes recruited for soccer don’t often get a led up in admissions[/b]. It’s different for revenue generating sports like basketball and football. DS was advised to maintain the highest GPA possible if he wanted to be recruited. Sure there may be an occasional applicant who a coach fights for but it’s isn’t going to be the majority of recruits. A 3.5 isn’t going to get admitted to HYSP on the men’s side. The coaches have their choice of talented HS soccer recruits who check the admissions boxes. But the fact is college soccer coaches are much more likely to choose a transfer or international player in 2026. [/quote]
Athletes recruited for soccer absolutely get a leg-up in admissions, and it’s very odd to claim otherwise. My child who was recruited by several ivies was told he could get through admissions so long as he kept his grades up and got at least a 1250 on the SAT. My other child (not recruited) with perfect grades in highly rigorous classes and a 1600 on the SAT was shut out by those same schools.

Also, check the rosters for HYPSM. The vast majority of players are American.

I’m not saying it’s an easy path to get to any top school, but we have found that the shot at a golden admissions ticket tends to keep kids more focused on their academics than they might otherwise be.

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