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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda has had a lot of good boys’ commitments for the last few years. They have boys on almost all the Ivy teams now, so no athletic scholarships, but still impressive to me and I think most parents. Others are starters on soccer powerhouse teams including Georgetown, Maryland, Stanford, and Wake Forest. [/quote]

Ok.  The Ivies have to do with who your parents are.  I always giggle when I hear legacies talk this way at our private HS.  Most of these kids would have gone there without soccer.

Clubs like Bethesda, McLean and Arlington have an incredibly affluent and educated parent base.  These kids were going to good schools without soccer.

Which makes the college commits for boys at McLean and Arlington even more underwhelming because it isn't anywhere close to Bethesda, not be a long shot.[/quote]
I agree with you that part of Bethesda’s success with boys’ commitments is because most (but not all) BSC kids come from families that are affluent, or strongly value the importance of education, or both.  Almost all of these kids were focusing at least as hard on their academics as they were on soccer., so they ended up being easy for college coaches to get through admissions.

But your comments about Ivy admissions don’t make much sense to me. Most of the BSC boys who are playing for Ivies or other top academic schools did not have parents who attended the school in question, and legacy status is not much of a hook. It can provide a very minor boost, but nothing compared to the hook of athletic recruitment.  Your private HS may have parents loaded enough to make 7 figure donations to their alma mater, but legacy alone is no guarantee.  [/quote]

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