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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am laughing at this veneration of the “student athlete”.  I’ve had two kids graduate high school and many of their friends went on to D3 schools to play their sports.  Most of them were pretty average players on on a crappy MCPS high school team.  Based on my observation, outside of the top SLACs, it’s not all that hard to get on a D3 team.  I am honesty shocked some of these kids were recruited.[/quote]

The hard thing is the academics.   Running or skating or throwing a ball is not the hard part.[/quote]

Outside of the top ten or so, SLACs are very easy admits, particularly for boys. My kid was recruited by tons of SLACs for his sport, but he had no interest because he was focused on academics and so he attends a D1 school. For the STEM education. No chance of competing as a freshman, but he trains with the team and hopes to compete in the next year or two. A SLAC would have been the mediocre choice - both for the education and the quality of the athletics. [/quote]

This is so incorrect (and ignorant) it must be a troll. [/quote]

It’s just one of the anti-SLAC obsessives on these boards. They are very weird.

Can you imagine writing something like the above about your own child? 😂 Certainly not the writing of a normal, healthy parent. [/quote]

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