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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And college admissions officers at D1 schools don’t consider your straight A online performance academy kid to be a true straight A student. You still have to get admitted even if your kid is that good, which is unlikely. [/quote]

Huh?  Alabama or Georgia or some other power 4 school just cares if you scored an 800 (total) on the SAT and yeah they are fine with your online transcript (BTW…they do offer 12 AP classes) if you are a really strong athlete.[/quote]

I’m talking about hockey specifically. Look at the D1 schools who offer hockey. Um no - your St James online Performance Academy kid is not getting into Harvard, Boston College, Colgate, U Mass Amherst, etc. These college admissions offices wouldn’t even know how to evaluate your online school. There are plenty of other D1 athletes they can chose from that - you know - went to school. And if you look at Tier 3 - yea - Middlebury, Colby, Amherst, and the likes are going to literally laugh at your rink schooled kid. [/quote]

UMass or Minnesota would be no different than GA or Bama for football…especially if your kid is NHL draft material.

Heck, MN accepts nearly everyone anyway, so it’s nonsensical to think they would turn away a star hockey player.

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Ok. Fair enough. I’ll take UMass of the list. But I stand by all of the others I mentioned. [/quote]

Well, Ok…but if a kid wants to play D1 hockey, then they are fine with UMass or Minnesota.

You happened to select a sport with a professional league where academic schools are also top ranked.  Thats not the case with basketball, football or baseball.

Duke couldn’t give a rats ass if Cooper Flagg had strong grades or test scores…why would they care when kids are only there to play for one year.[/quote]

Outside of the Ivy schools that offer D1 hockey, any of the other schools in D1 are going to lower the bar significantly for talented hockey players. Heck, wasn't the big celebrity scandal with William H Macy over using rowing to get his underperforming child into a school?[/quote]

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