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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to throw this out there, but in dcs experience there are lots of d2 out there and they express a lot of interest and offer $. I know a dc who ended up at a d2 and is playing his heart it and loving it. These schools are not known as top academic schools obviously but I assume there are some decent ones. [/quote]

D2 is the near wasteland of college sports with weak academics and relatively weak sports. There are a few CSU schools which are exceptions but in general it is weak on both vectors. NAIA is the true wasteland though.[/quote]

Funny I don’t think this dc is unhappy. Was very happy to play and now going to grad school [/quote]

That's great!, I'm glad things worked for her but if yo know that environment then you fully understand that it is not a fit for your typical high academic athlete, especially one who is good enough to play in the UAA or NESCAC.[/quote]

Oh so everyone a typical high academic athlete? I didn’t know that. [/quote]

The OP's question was for a high academic D3 athlete. Feel free to start another thread.[/quote]

There are kids who are not super academic kids who nonetheless get recruited by academic d3…. [/quote]

I am sure that they do at many very good D3 schools but they do not get recruited to NESCAC, UAA, or other very selective schools like some in the Liberty League, Centennial League and NEWMAC conferences. Lets make sure that we are on the same page when we say "high academic".[/quote]

I don’t know all the schools off the top of my head like you seem to but I will tell you that I just went and checked and my strong athlete but merely good/decent student is currently getting interest from 4 NESCAC schools who are aware of dcs grades and SAT etc [/quote]

Grades, scores, schools? What will work for one doesn't work for all. Conn College, Trinity, and Bates are great schools but what is acceptable for them isn't nearly enough for Amherst, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Middlebury, or Tufts. WEs and Colby will fall between the extremes.

Same holds for the UAA as well Good enough for CWRU, Rochester and Brandeis doesn't cut it at Chicago, Emory, WashU, and CMU with NYU in the middle. All great schools but the standards are not uniform.[/quote]

Ok. My dc with interest from Nescac or whatever it’s called has recruiting interest from across those groups.  But anyway, that’s not the focus and I’m not here to quibble about which school is more academically elite. [b]None of them have particularly great athletics[/b]. That’s the issue [/quote]

get your point but there are many shades of gray here - for cross-country, the D1 sport has been heavily impacted by international recruits - most specifically by the African recruits who grow up at altitude and have a physiological advantage vs the 18-year old kid from Chevy Chase - many of the international recruits can’t really even speak English, are well into their 20s when starting school and some feel it’s ruining D1 running. D3 a much purer home grown approach - [/quote]

Transfer portal? Let a kid develop and then move out ?[/quote]

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