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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, but I'd rather spend the $6000 on building their intellectual horsepower. My kids were all good athletes but size and speed were not in their gene pool. My son was a varsity tennis player (good but not great) but he really got into science so he went to a couple of science camps. He went to Harvard and he is now a doctor. It's unlikely that tennis would have gotten him to the same place.[/quote]

So he is a doctor now, this was what?  20 yrs ago.  To get into Harvard now, he’ll have to be an outstanding athlete AND outstanding in the sciences or whatever.  My friends and I like to joke that we would not have gotten into our respective ivies if we applied now.[/quote]

No worries, today he'd still have the (((legacy))) credentials he had back then.[/quote]

Of course he will and legacy admissions have held steady at 1 out of 3.  Much easier than the less than 5% admitted from general admissions.

But you did not mention that he had legacy status in your original post where you implied being good in the sciences and being a middling athlete was enough to get into Harvard:  Certainly a bit disingenuous.[/quote]

He didn't have legacy status (I wish!) but he was and is really smart. It was his essay that made the difference which amazed us given he didn't share it with us.[/quote]

Neither did I but that does not mean I’ll get in now...  20+ yrs ago, admissions rate was around 10%.  Now it is less than 5%.

I know several kids who are currently attending Ivies or equivalent like MIT and got into multiple ones:  what they all have in common is that they were outstanding academically and nationally ranked in the top 50 in their sport for their age.[/quote]

My son is a freshmen at Princeton and he is not a legacy, not a top 50 in a sport, not a minority but he is really smart. Frankly, the odds of you knowing several kids ranked in the top 50 in their sport is statistically impossible. [/quote]

If you are top 50 in a sport you are a very serious and heavily recruited athlete. Not many of them will go Ivy because the allure of playing high level D1 is pretty powerful. Of course if your definition of top 50 is in your HS league that's different. [/quote]

My son got into Princeton as long as he agreed to play his sport. However there was no scholarship involved. Luckily he is actually smart and decided to go with the D1 school who was giving him a free ride.

I cannot even begin to tell you how many doors his sport opened to him after he graduated.  These doors were all held open by the alumni community After 4 years playing ball at school, he started his first job at 70k.  Not only did he graduate without a penny in debt, we were able to gift him the 120k we saved for him for his first home.

Princeton would have been a bust.[/quote]

Ivies don't give out scholarships for sports or anything else.  However, they do give out need based aide.  Generally, for families that make under 150K nowadays, tuition at Harvard is zero...  but you have to get in first.[/quote]

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