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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best players are picking the best academic schools which is why Stanford, Duke etc do so well.  The best players are not picking Alabama.

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Which explains Florida State's success...[/quote]

Agree ... FSU, a bastion of higher learning, yeah right. Right up there with WVU (another top 10 school) and USF (top 20).

Zero Ivy League schools finished in the women's top 20 last year. Of the team's finishing in the top 20 only Stanford, Georgetown, and Duke standout as truly "best academic" schools (and two of those are overrated academically due to the money influence at those private schools).  The rest are big state colleges or big private schools that are solid academically, but nothing substantially different than their counterparts. With a few exceptions, the same schools that are good at most athletics are also good at soccer. It's about the money and the importance of the athletic department at those schools.

Anyhow, your kid should short list the schools they WANT to attend based on either a focus on some particular academic subject or wide array of solid educational options in a wide variety of fields. They should also pick based on affordability as most soccer scholarships wont cover the whole deal. Then, IF they are offered something at one or more of those shorts listed schools, eliminate those that aren't, then pick the school.  D1 or a lower division, whatever makes sense for them.  They will most likely not be doing anything with soccer after college, so which team they end up playing on is less of a concern than which school they pick.[/quote]

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