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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering… do the hockey players at top schools (like Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Amherst) usually go to juniors first? Or do they tend to have an easier route because they have a 1500+ SAT or whatever and there aren’t as many of those?[/quote]

Almost all go to juniors first (or sometimes a PG year at a prep school).  I know two kids who are freshman at Amherst this year.  One did a year at an NCDC team, and another did a PG year at a NE prep school.  Neither is really playing much this season.  There isn't really an easier route.  I was at an event with the Dartmouth coach, and a parent asked "If my kid has really high grades and scores, does that mean he can be a little worse at hockey and play for you?" (I'm paraphrasing here).  The answer was:  "We want the best possible hockey players we can get in.  So if the choice is between a kid with a 1590 SAT and 4.0 unweighted GPA and a kid with a 1420 and 3.5 GPA and the second kid is better, we want that kid" (again, I'm paraphrasing).[/quote]

Total noob here. What is a PG year at a NE prep school? Post-graduate (like after finishing HS)? And which NE prep schools do this sort of thing for kids who didn’t graduate from that particular prep school (if any)? Or not an option for kids who graduate from local public HS?

Given maturity levels, I could see some potential benefit in a gap year playing in juniors or maybe doing this PG thing, realizing the kid may or may not land on anything more than a spirited intramural team in college if it doesn’t pan out. [/quote]

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