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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-  Be prepared to pivot senior year.  Lots can change about what they like after it hits home in the Fall that leaving for college is seriously upon them.
-  Sports recruiting greatly complicates the college process. Proceed with extreme caution unless the athletic talent is greater than the academic talent and academically it doesn't really matter where the kid goes.  Of all the hooks, the usefuness of sports is the most unreliable for the vast majority of kids  (exception is football).  The good news is that all college offers many venues to play a sport - walk on, club, IM.
-[b] Select a college for what they will grow into, not where they are as HS seniors.  Much growth occurs freshman year.  It's ok to start out a little uncomfortable.[/b]
- Use the early card wisely.

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This is the best advice I've heard that nobody ever mentions.  Everyone talks about fit, fit, fit but the person you're likely to be by your college senior year is very different than when you're 16 or 17.  [/quote]

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