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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“College athlete” is a broad term. For D2, many of the schools are weak academically & athletically, with small teams and student bodies. MANY D3 colleges which are generally small liberal arts colleges, openly use sports as a way to keep their doors open nowadays. Their selling point for kids is the opportunity to keep playing for another four years, athletic or academic ability be damned. They use “sports recruiting” as a way to bring in warm bodies so the school can have enough students to keep its doors open. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to NESCAC schools, but absolutely applies to one’s below T40 ish in the LAC rankings. [/quote]

Some of those — mostly more towards the West and in better locations — are increasingly popular because you get a LAC environment in a good location without the insanity required for the T30s. I know multiple kids (some athletes and not, all good students) who did ED to western/midwestern LACs in the T40-T100 range. They all got in with excellent merit aid, they generally seem happier than a lot of their peers, and it seems like a great decision.

I’ve read a few articles about the coming demographic cliff for colleges and how many small eastern LACs won’t survive but the ones towards the west will be okay. I was skeptical, but I’ve now seen that trend play out. [/quote]

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