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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recruited athletes get a huge thumb on the scale because of the American money-generating sports culture. Not because it builds character.

It is what it is. Why do the parents of these students push back on this? Why pretend it’s so hard to get special treatment? You and your kid benefit from this. You win!

Why pretend?
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We do win.

Some of us have All-American, near-perfect GPAs,  1450 and higher SATs, AP/IB-loaded-up kids who are not better than yours; they just serve a function for Amherst and other schools.

Amherst and its competitors could easily fill a class with Indian and Chinese students that would run academic circles around all of us.  That is your competition and threat.  Not some kid you see as being less than yours because they played lacrosse at Deerfield.

You can't have everything both ways, can you?[/quote]

This.

My kid spent 20+ hours a week since 6th grade in their sport and won a national championship junior year with a similar profile.

Not going to feel bad if a high-academic D3 school feels that’s a bigger hook EC-wise than the club someone else’s kid started in high school or some internship. [/quote]

Don't forget the non-profit they started with mom and dad's money or the research paper they authored with the scientist funded by mom and dad's money or the anthropology dig they spent their summer working on after the project got an infusionn of mom and dad's money.  At least the athlete had to get good enough to make a coach go out on a limb for them.[/quote]

After spending lots of mom and dad’s money on fees, equipment, travel expenses, private coaching, etc.?

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You can go to club tourneys this weekend and see that mom an dad's money aren't working for 95% of the 'athletes'[/quote]

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