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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t change your race or major donor status, but sports team recruiting seems to be a major hook. Knowing what you know now, would you encourage your child to intensely pursue a sport. You don’t necessarily have to be a superstar for a lot of D3 teams, just a varsity athlete at a big school who plays outside of school at an advanced level. I have a younger kid and I’m definitely not Ivy or bust, I wonder if this is something I should encourage. Even flagship schools have &lt;25% acceptance rates. Wonder what older parents who have gone thru the process think?[/quote]

Do not do this.  You are talking about years and years of practices and tournaments and thousand and thousands of dollars in fees and travel expenses.  This is for kids that really like the sport, have some drive and talent and the family has the time and money.

Spend all that on something where the student has an interest and talent.  It sports...fine.  but maybe it is dance or music or science or something else.[/quote]

Read: we don’t want your non athlete competing in our sports, spend $$$$ and hours of practice and competition and performances in dance, music, or science fair.

But unfortunately, the winner of the school science fair is meaningless to admissions, only a national prize is worth anything.  But captain of a sports team at a 3000 person high school. That’s something. [/quote]

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