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[quote=Anonymous]DP, but it seems quite obvious to me that “better stigma” is meant to be synonymous with “higher status.” There is no question that playing D1 is going to be more impressive to most people who love sports than D2, D3, Juco, or not playing in college, because to play D1 in any sport, you have to have very high level baseline athletic ability compared to the average US population, plus talent, drive, and discipline.

In my particular corner of the world, there are far more parents who are primarily or solely focused on the potential admissions boost at a high level academic school vs sports prestige. These parents would be thrilled if soccer helped with an acceptance at an Ivy with a so-so soccer team or a D3 like Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, etc. and they would pick one of those schools over say, University of Maryland, every day of the week even if their kid could play for Sasho with a full athletic scholarship. I think the OP must be coming from a community like mine to not understand that kids pick off-the-radar schools all the time for all kinds of perfectly legit reasons. [/quote]

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