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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So can I read this threat to believe that if I have a kid who is smart enough to get into a SLAC on academics, is a decent varsity athlete (certainly not a D1 recruit), and we are full pay, they have a chance at making the team? [/quote]

Depends on the SLAC and the sport. I don’t think Williams and Amherst is in the cards for just decent. For track and XC, the Williams recruited athletes had D1 options if they wanted them.[/quote]

true for about 2 kids per year at each school - those are the kids with D1 - Patriot League or Ivy - options [/quote]

Every one of them could run D1 somewhere if they were more interested in D1 than
 an academic experience.[/quote]

the issue is that any kid who can get a slot at Williams or Amherst (full pay) is never passing that up for a 25% athletic scholarship to a Patriot league school. Too
much difference in the perceived value of the degrees - abother thread on that lol[/quote]

You don’t understand most athletes.  The vast majority want to compete at a D1 level and would take Lehigh over Williams and Amherst with zero $$$s.

Most kids have little interest in schools that small no matter what.[/quote]

Mine turned down Lehigh and two other Patriot League schools for a NESCAC. There was not much money so they chose the better overall academics and experience. Decision might have been different for an Ivy.[/quote]
I call BS on this one. If your kid is a legit Patriot League athlete then they could have also played at one of the Ivies and nobody is choosing D3 NESCAC over D1 Ivy.

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The overlap between the Ivy League, Patriot League, and NESCAC in non revenue sports particularly in Women’s sports is pretty large. The top 4 NESCAC (Amherst, Middlebury, Williams, Tufts) are equal or better than Lafayette, Holy Cross, Loyola Maryland and American in many sports. Better than Columbia, Dartmouth and Brown in some as well.

It is very common to have competing offers and since there is little or no money involved you see a lot of kids go the NESCAC route. My kid had other D1 offers as well but the academics weren’t there. Impact player as a freshman, it’s been a great experience so far.[/quote]

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