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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]With hundreds of kids competing at JO’s per event I assure you this is not a great way to get into college.[/quote]
Compare this against tens if not hundreds of thousands of students playing a more common sport like football or basketball. The competition is literally multiple orders of magnitude worse if you’re trying to use them as a backdoor to ivies.

To be a recruited athlete for football, basketball, or track you need to be an incredibly talented superhuman who won the genetic lottery. For fencing, squash, or rowing you need to be wealthy and somewhat(but not necessarily extremely) athletically gifted. [/quote]

JOs require qualification. Most clubs don’t have coaches who can get kids even qualified. I am not saying it’s as competitive as basketball. That is not the point. I am saying the odds are probably worse than the 3-5% of applicants to super selective schools (in which case taking up the sport to get into college doesn’t make sense). [/quote]

Given you didn’t know it’s challenging to qualify for JO’s I also would guess you do not know that American fencers are starting to medal in international tournaments where they are competing in countries where the sport is taken much more seriously, thus attracting naturally talented athletes. It is unfair to criticize athletes in a sport you do not seem to know a lot about. [/quote]

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