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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian male
Tennis player rated in the top 600 in nation
3.9/4.0 GPA, 7 AP's by sophomore year + 5 AP's next year
SAT not taken yet, but expecting around 1500 per practice tests
Volunteered at hospital and some research at a university but nothing published.

Not sure about major, but definitely not engineering or medicine. Maybe interested in law or business.

What are his chances among the top 30 universities? Great? Reasonable? Not likely?[/quote]

Being among among the top 600 in anything is great.

But it's not going lead to an athletic scholarship to Stanford.

Check out the bios of the tennis players at the schools your son is interested in. Most of the really good tennis programs do tend to be among the higher tier schools. But it's not football, with it's 100+ spots every year. It's tennis. Maybe one spot opens every year.

My youngest kid deals with this. Now a freshman at a D1 T20 school. Track. Recruited by tons of D3 schools. Definitely top 200 in his fields. But he got in to his school because of his academic credentials. It's a D1 school though. Not a lot of 18 year olds are competitive with sixth year 23 year olds. Would suspect the same with tennis.

No athletic scholarship. No boost.

But he had contacted the coach. Invited to practice with the team to get his times up. Will do his things competitively next year.

Point is, there are very few spots for the more obscure sports - tennis, track. Do it if you love it. Reach out to the coaches  But when it comes to admissions, it's the academics that matter most

But do reach out to the coaches.[/quote]

NP. The coach likely added a letter to his file which, even though he was not recruited,  may have given him a tip.

OP,  it can't hurt for him to contact coaches. There is probably a typical way to reach out, and his current coach can help with that. Even if he isn't recruited,  if he is an excellent student and viable candidate on academic and other merits, a positive note from the coach could be the thing that helps him stand out. Apply early for the best chance.[/quote]

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