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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True!  But if privates didn't tell this to students, maybe they wouldn't be able to field so many teams! (which, full disclosure, i find to be a dirty little secret of most privates)[/quote]

Tell us more of your conspiracy theories!!!![/quote]

I was joking, but here is the serious point.  Some kids love to play a sport and hope to play in college.  Some love to play but aren't good enough for that.  Many like to play, and some don't but do it because they think they have to.  But most independents are set up to strongly incentivize - or require - kids to play on interscholastic teams.  Good or bad, the time commitment is huge - one of our kids often wouldn't get home to eat and start homework until nearly 7:00 pm. Some kids are so organized and have the energy to do that, study well for another 4 or 5 hours, and do it again tomorrow.  But many cannot, and school work suffers - not failing suffers, but the kid who should get the A gets a somewhat lower grade or learns to cram but not to mAster material.  If the child is passionate about a team sport, fine, it is a trade off. But my thesis is that plenty of kids are hurt more than helped by the amount of time dedicated to school sports, and they are deluded into thinking this seriously helps in college admissions  -- more than makes up for the loss of time spent om other pursuits -- if the student is not planning to play college ball. 
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