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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a daughter who was on a top varsity team her freshman year and will likely be a D1 college recruit next year. Two local privates told us to apply for financial aid and promised to take care of us, even though I said our income was $700k. She ended up going to a different school but I’ve heard from many on her club team who got similar offers and took them.[/quote]

It also depends on the sport (and school).

My child was the very best in their sport in the private school admissions pool during 8th grade, and then heavily recruited as a D1 prospect. It is a "medium" priority sport I would say.

We always made first contact. No one reached out to us, including the #1 team in the sport at the time which was a school we weren't considering (therefore, did not make contact). It is a sport and team where the HS coach is a club coach and easily could have said something at an event (not that they should have).

We were never offered any aid, nor told to apply for aid. We were not incentivized to choose any of the schools by the athletics department, other than all the "rah rah, you'll love it here".

I do, however, think it was a significant boost in admissions status.  [/quote]

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