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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t change your race or major donor status, but sports team recruiting seems to be a major hook. Knowing what you know now, would you encourage your child to intensely pursue a sport. You don’t necessarily have to be a superstar for a lot of D3 teams, just a varsity athlete at a big school who plays outside of school at an advanced level. I have a younger kid and I’m definitely not Ivy or bust, I wonder if this is something I should encourage. Even flagship schools have &lt;25% acceptance rates. Wonder what older parents who have gone thru the process think?[/quote]

Do not do this.  [b]You are talking about years and years of practices and tournaments and thousand and thousands of dollars in fees and travel expenses.[/b]  This is for kids that really like the sport, have some drive and talent and the family has the time and money.

Spend all that on something where the student has an interest and talent.  It sports...fine.  but maybe it is dance or music or science or something else.[/quote]

Oh boy is this the truth. Years and years of dedication and sacrifice. My kid was just recruited to play his sport in college at a T20 school (D3). He had the academic stats to get admitted as well as the athletic ability. And it has been a long road.

He has had to miss so many social and milestone events over the years with family and friends because he was away at tournaments and don't even get me started on the cost. While other families went on vacations to different and interesting locations each summer, all our travel budget was spent on his sport travel. So many of our family "vacations" were to NC for tournaments. Not complaining. Just stating the facts. And before you resign your child, OP, to pursuing sports as a way to land a good college consider this very night as a perfect example: as I type this I am waiting for him to arrive home. It is [b]pouring [/b]rain out and he has been at practice in this mess since 8 p.m. He has not eaten dinner yet and probably still has homework which he will stay up to get done while I go to bed. He will get 6 hours of sleep and get up to start another day that will again, tomorrow, end very late at night because of his sport practice. Hopefully tomorrow, though, the rain will have stopped. He does this and has been doing this for YEARS because he genuinely loves his sport. He'd have too because it is a grind. [/quote]

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