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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone speak about club sports at some of these highly-ranked D1 schools? DC loves their sport and wants to play club in college. How do they find out how competitive the club scene is at a particular school?

This isn't a make-or-break issue when choosing a school, obviously. But as clubs/ECs go, club sports are much more important to DC than the consulting/finance club scenes. [/quote]

Club Soccer, at least for boys, is very tough. The team is filled with former MlsNext, ECNL and International players- at my kids’ school (of course this will be school dependent) some of their competition from other universities was not very good. This is because: 
1) kids were recruited elsewhere- but wanted highest academic school they could get into on their own (which is higher than w/soccer)- my kid and many teammates- some were transfers from a D3 school team; 2) serious about their studies; 3) burned out at the time constraints; 4) dropped down from the Varsity team due to not liking the coach or lack of playing time; 5) it’s a sport played by so many kids; 6) a school where coach won’t entertain any walk-ons. So- often only 1-2 Freshmen make it first year.

There is another level below this though : Intramurals which is open to all.

No idea about other sports- but I’m guessing basketball is very similar, hockey seemed to be too. [/quote]

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