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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son at an Ivy hasn’t run into this.

He made the Club sport team and joined the club he wanted. [/quote]

Same. My kid is unhooked.  He has found lots of friends, joined club and a sports team and is having fun.

I guess it depends on the Ivy.[/quote]

Same. Club sports team he made is competitive though.  Rolling cuts over 3 days of tryouts. 100 kids for 4 Freshman spots. He got one of them. But, club travels and plays other colleges- flys to championships, etc. This one plays nearly year round. Most colleges certain sports are very competitive to make the teams. Very large schools near impossible.

There are intramural teams for kids not on the Varsity or Club teams. [/quote]

This. One at an Ivy and one at UVA. The Ivy kid has had much more opportunity--easily gotten into clubs he wanted.  Not wealthy, not hooked, etc.  The culture at UVA was much harder to get into things. And club sports were even more like a rush than talent and the sheer numbers coming out for the popular sports made it impossible.[/quote]

And my UVA had nary a problem. She joined the Jefferson Society (debate), a political club, worked for Larry Sabato's Crystal ball, worked on school newspaper, had great friends and never even set foot in a Greek house. And  you are wrong about club sports. UVA has over 700 clubs and all
have tables out each year in the fall welcoming new members. It is a public, after all. Often it's just the kid ....[/quote]

[b]Have kids at UVA and club sports are SUPER competitive. [/quote][/b]

But to be fair, UVA is nothing compared to
Harvard, where I went. There are no finals clubs, no dining clubs, no Porc. There are over 700 clubs that all students can apply to. Every fall, the clubs out tables in Alderman
and have reps meet with students. It's also easy to start your own. There are sone competitive Business Clubs and some competitive sports clubs. And the student Honors club. But the two social ones that one must compete for - the most elite a capella groups (UVA has something like 20 a cappella groups, which all perform on the lawn before Christmas) and the Jefferson Society (oldest debating society in America) are audition by talent competitions. The rest  -including many more singing groups, the political clubs and ecen the student newspaper, are open to everyone. If you can't find some clubs to suit your interests you aren't trying[/quote]

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