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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges don’t care about extracurriculars unless you’re in the top 1% of the nation[/quote]

Wrong. If this kid recruits successfully, that is all the school will care about. So that could be GMU or Marymount or Yale. If he is NOT a good enough athlete for the schools he is looking at, then his EC as an athlete will count like any other EC and this could hurt him if it is all he has as an EC and it is a selective school.[/quote]

Not at Yale or other T-20 schools. Recruiting successfully means gotten the endorsement from the coach [b]and[/b] from the admission office, which typically will issue a [i]Likely Letter[/i] to confirm candidate is qualified academically. These schools will require a pre-read (full transcript, test scores, all ECs, resume, etc.) in the spring/summer before senior year to assess potential recruit's academic strength. Look up 'Academic Index' requirements for Ivy League. In practice, if the candidate is truly outstanding in a revenue-generating D1 sport (think football or basketball) then the academic index threshold could be lowered to an extent, but the overall Academic Index for all recruits needs to be compensated by other athletes in different sports, e.g. fencing which tends to have the highest academic profile.[/quote]

I understand how it works. What was written above is still wrong. OP said nothing about academics…only ECs. If the kid is a phenom OR if it is a less rejective school (higher admission rate) then not having other ECs won’t matter at all unless it is a place like MIT or Cal Tech. [/quote]

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