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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh I hate not being rich right now. DC has athletic recruiting offers to some top SLAC schools, but they don't do athletic or merit scholarships. I ran the NPCs and we get zero financial aid at all of them, but they're just too expensive for us to pay full price.

Now DC has to either 1) go to lower ranked schools offering athletic/merit scholarships or 2) forego athletic recruitment and just apply EA to state schools or shot gun in regular decision in hopes of merit.

Tonight I have to tell DC that they can't go to either of the SLAC's that they really want and have offers to. And we're not prepared with essays because we spent oodles of time on recruiting on top of an intensive year round sports schedule.

I hope this serves as a cautionary tale for donut hole parents of younger athletic recruits. Don't waste your time on recruiting unless you can either pay full price, your kid is good enough to get a hefty scholarship at one of the few good schools that offers athletic scholarships *and wants to go to these larger schools*, or you qualify for significant FA.[/quote]

OP -- it was on you to have a conversation in Ninth grade with the kid --- look -- you need to focus on state schools for your sport or D1s that give money.  Otherwise we cannot do it.  There was no point going through the recruiting process you went through.  Rather than not have them play a sport have a real conversation.

We are not in your situation.  We can pay.  DD is at a high academic D3.  But that is what she wanted.  She knew she wanted Ivy or that (plus a few more).  She did not chase or engage with the schools she was not interested in.  Even good D1s.  That is what you should have done.[/quote]

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