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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]D3 sports are mostly just a con to get rich kids in the door so their rich parents and grandparents 1) pay full boat tuition 2) send big donation checks.

I knew a couple girls that ran cross country for HYP. They were totally mediocre. But daddy was a billionaire.[/quote]

Um, they must have been very talented if they were running for HYP; most kids I know would be challenged to attend one college, let alone three.  How did they handle the commute between campuses?

And that comment about D3 sports is just mean-spirited or ignorant or both.  Rich folks aren't really going to care about having a "hook" to get young Larlo Larloton IV into the hallowed halls of (insert Ivy-of-the-moment here).  They simply speak to admissions, make the donation and then write the tuition check.  Larlo IV will play whatever s/he plays because s/he enjoys the sport, it's part of the social culture, whatever.   Rich kids (real rich folks, not over-compensated lawyers, fnancial folks, whatever) aren't going D3.

My DC is a recruited athlete at a D3 school, the kind of school folks on this forum would dismiss as being unacceptable or for losers or a waste of money.  DC focused on D3 because s/he wanted the experience of continuing a sport s/he loves but did not want to be indentured to athletics (as are some of their friends who are doing the sport at D1 schools).  D3 programs have dedicated coaches, have to run competitive programs, have to answer to the administration about the costs and effectiveness of their programs and care about their student athletes.

How about posters try to sound less sour and less damning of others?  Reading the responses, you'd think that athletics (and universities for that matter) were run by Bernie Madoff and the Board of Directors from Enron.[/quote]

Congrats to your kid! I suppose I’m one of those parents who focuses too much on my kids getting into the best schools possible (and yes, obsessing). But I don’t think other kinds of colleges are for losers or unacceptable. I have five kids and they attend/will attend a wide range of schools and that’s okay. Find one where they are happy and challenged, right? I played D3 and it was a fantastic experience. Good luck to yours. [/quote]

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