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[quote=Anonymous]My son went to prep school and was in this same scenario—though he did manage to pack a few ECs into the margins. For the boys on his team who were low stats to a bit above average stats who were in a similar boat, I don’t think the college outcome changed much due to just having the one intense activity. Those kids are all into t50-t150s as they would have been regardless.

HOWEVER, it definitely hurt the really high stat/top rigor kids…they were shut out of the top schools (t20ish) that the more well rounded kids with similar stats at the prep school got in to. My son watched this play out his freshman and sophomore year and dropped the sport (still played another less time intense sport) and reconfigured starting the summer after his sophomore year and ended up getting into several top schools that I’m certain he’d have been rejected from if he’d continued the sport.

So, I’d say it’s really not an issue if your kid is aiming around t50 or lower. But if your kid wants t25 or better schools and isn’t going to be recruited, he might need to think about how important it is to keep playing that much.[/quote]

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