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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]$200k that will be saved over 4 years at lesser school.[/quote]

This does not seem like much of a savings to me - not enough to turn down the Ivy. I don't send my children to college to play sports. I would never force my kid to go to a school they didn't want to attend because it was higher ranked, but I don't go along with the idea of choosing a college based on playing a sport.[/quote]

That’s a ton of pressure to put on your kid if you don’t have to.

What if the coach or the team culture turn out to be a terrible fit?

What if they are battling an injury or have reason to worry that they’ll be cut or replaced by a transfer student?

I’d hate for my kid to feel forced to continue with a sport under those conditions.

All that said, if you can’t afford full pay, I get it. But if you can afford it, but you’re thinking about this as a ROI type decision, I encourage you to factor in the risk - to them and to you, financially - that the sport situation doesn’t play out as you all hoped and they either quit the team or get cut. [/quote]

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