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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know for real (data/stats) if playing for your high school gets you into a top 10 college? I would guess you would have to be really good and get recruited or something. Just being on a team is not going to help. And realistically how many kids get recruited from one high school? 
My kids were not into sports. They were more into academics and took lots of AP’s and even classes like MV, linear algebra etc..had almost a perfect SAT (first try) but that did not get my DS into MIT or Stanford..
My conclusion is, unless you are an athletic recruit or a legacy, or URM  its mostly a crapshoot.[/quote]
Yeah ivies and Stanford hoover up all the 4.0/5.0 top scholar athletes big time. [/quote]

Stanford hoovers up top athletes period...you don't have to be a scholar athlete.  They have higher standards than NCAA minimums, but their standards are far below the average Stanford stats for non-athletes.

Even Ivy athletes in football, basketball, baseball can be hundreds of SAT points lower than the median for non-athletes.

The other thing is you don't have to do anything else except your sport, and if you get a commitment then completing the application is nothing more than an administrative exercise.  Nobody is reading it...in fact you get dedicated AO's at Stanford or Harvard reviewing what you do before you even submit it just to make sure you don't do something stupid.[/quote]

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