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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upper middle class white kids are in a dead zone for admissions unless they’re a recruitable athlete.  They’re in the same pile as rich kids, private and boarding school kids but have a fraction of the resources.  Especially if you live in a high COL area.

And moving in high school should be considered the disadvantage that it is. [/quote]

Correct.

But with squash, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse, baseball, golf, tennis, wrestling, water polo, fencing, cross country, etc, etc, etc, there's plenty of opportunities for UMC white kids to get a hook.[/quote]

You must have toddlers if you think these sports don’t cost a bloody fortune. To support my kid’s high school tennis “career” (not scholarship or D1 level) was $20,000 a year.  This is pocket change in the tennis training world. To be recruitable in these sports, parents are spending major cash. [/quote]

Wow PP, I spent maybe $2k per year on my kids tennis “career” lol. What the heck are you paying for if they are not D1 or scholarships?[/quote]

Racquets, shoes, year-round lessons, summer training camps, USTA matches and all the travel that comes with it.  You couldn’t even make the high school team if you weren’t putting this much into it. High school sports are no longer hobbies you pick up once a season through the school. That was the 80s.[/quote]

Ha well my DS graduated in 2021 so not the 80s and he played #1 on his tennis team junior and senior year. Racquets cost $250 each strung and didn’t get replaced every year, sneaks did get replaced every year. Did year round tennis but not during season  spent the summer at the local country club where he worked playing tennis, no camps, traveled only to driving distance USTA tournaments. My point is why spend five figure per year for a sport they’re not going to play in college?   It’s just an EC at that point. [/quote]

Where do you live?

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NOVA[/quote]

I find this hard to believe, but congratulations for attending a school that didn’t have such a competitive team, I guess.  Because at most schools, kids at the top are spending $85 an hour for private lessons and thousands for summer training.  But in any case, the point is that to play at the recruitable level takes an enormous amount of money. Facts.[/quote]

Hahah ok well the point is that he didn’t want to play in college since he wanted to go to better school than he could play at, so no need to go hog wild on lessons and camps etc. so yeah my kid who is apparently not as competitive as yours is in the exact same positions as yours and we spent alot less. [/quote]

No, the point was that to be a recruitable white athlete, it costs a fortune in training so those kids are still rich. You didn’t spend much and your kid wasn’t recruited.  I spent a lot more than you just because our team was competitive but far, far less than parents whose kids will get scholarships.  Both our kids experiences make my point. You turned this into some personal one upsmanship about  our different experiences in different states, at different schools. Weird. But congratulations on feeling smug.[/quote]

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