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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew a girl at one of HYPS who had been a low national level competitive figure skater. Not someone you'd have heard of in the Olympics or anything but quite highly ranked. She certainly didn't make it in on academics, and she wasn't recruited. But it made for a good story and that means a lot to admissions officers.[/quote]

Of course, she is a nationally competitive figure skater! I’m sure her academics were good enough. It’s pretty obvious when you hear about talented kids… the national youth poet laureate, founding an organization that went national with branches everywhere, etc Almost always these kids end up at HYPS

Still, your example doesn’t prove the point that colleges care that much more about athletics outside of recruited athletes. [/quote]

Well if we're being pedantic about it, I provided a specific example of where they DID care about athletics outside of recruitment. But if you mean does this apply to little Billy who is co captain of a middling high school soccer team, which I think is what we're basically talking about, it more than likely doesn't.[/quote]

Yes, they cared bc she was competing at a national level. On the common app there are checkmarks for regional, state, national, and international. [/quote]

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