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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the 2016-17 application season, a few other St. Albans threads seem to be saying that there is more athletic "recruiting" taking place than before.  My son is a gifted 2 sports athlete, but his scores are just above average.  Will his sports skills make up for that much of an academic gap?[/quote]

To be honest, I don't think anybody but the school could know if it's true or not that there is more recruiting, in the sense of recruiting that leads to admission.  (This is also an area in which there are a lot of suppositions/assumptions that are not always true.)  St. Albans has in the past had a very decentralized approach to recruiting -- some coaches did it more than others but it was all at the coach/program level in terms of direct outreach.  They've added some more formalized admissions events meant to highlight that the school recognizes and values athletic talent in the admissions process, but the onus for recruiting still seems to be on individual coaches.  And only the admissions office -- because only they actually know the full picture, including the academic profile of any given applicant in the pool -- actually knows if the school is giving more weight in the admissions process to athletes.  [/quote]

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