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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, here. Thanks for your helpful answers.
DS is a DA player, but as we put academics first, we would like to see if he could consider other (perhaps slightly less time-consuming) options in a few years that would still give him a shot at playing in college.
Not looking for scholarships, just for good academics and possible playing time.
As argued by some of you D3 may be a better fit (assuming it is much easier to get in).
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D3 is not easier to get in or a path for lesser athletes.  The best D3 teams will beat mid-level D1 teams just about every day, and are run (within NCAA rules) just as rigorously as D1.  There are many D3 athletes that could be D1 players but chose smaller schools or different academic programs.  You will need to be playing (and being noticed) at a very high level to get into a D3 school with soccer.  That said, the lesser the school (both academically and athletically), the more options there will be.[/quote]

We’re talking about a kid who currently plays DA. There are definitely some great D3 soccer programs, including most of the NESCACs, Messiah, Brandeis, and several others, but on the whole, the D3/level is much lower, and a top soccer player will have far more D3 than D1 options.  The more academically elite D3 schools do still have a high academic bar for admissions, but again, only a relatively small percentage of D3 programs are in that group.  DA is much less necessary if D3 is the goal; most NESCAC men’s players did not come from the DA. [/quote]

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