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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He plays on the school's club team, most likely.

I often wonder if crazy soccer parents (not necessarily saying you're one of them, OP) realize that after high school, and for a select few after college, soccer does go away.  Sure you can play in adult leagues but like... transferring schools to play on a different lower division soccer team?  Is college just the next step in soccer achievement?  What about after college?

[b]Like, the obsession with getting into an Ivy I also think is kind of tiring (because it's like... ok, you're at princeton, now what?  you keep attending class and then graduate and get a job like everyone else) but I understand it more, because of the link to higher paying jobs and a stronger education and a more intelligent peer group while in college.  [/b]But... chasing soccer at age 20, as someone who is getting cut from their D1 team?  The glory days are over, kid.  You were probably a standout at age 10, and that's great that you enjoyed soccer through your youth, but like... competitive soccer is over for you.  Hope you didn't pour your entire identity into it over the past decade. But for some of these parents and kids, they absolutely did. [/quote]

I was with you until this analogy.  [b]Sorry but on average the kids at Princeton are moving on to a whole other life than the kids at JMU.  [//b]You realize that right?  Just reality.

Do agree with you though sports end and that's it until they can have their own children and live vicariously through them, which is the next step for many.[/quote]

But do YOU realize that on average the kids at Princeton are simply CONTINUING on in their whole other life than the kids at JMU?

Anyone who isn’t already connected upon entering an Ivy is in for a rude awakening when they inevitably learn that the Ivy pedigree is more bragging rights than some golden ticket.[/quote]

I went to an Ivy and this really isn’t true but go on thinking it.[/quote]

Ok.  So tell us your rags to riches story and what your Ivy afforded you that your state flagship could not.

For an Ivy grad, it’s shocking that you aren’t familiar with the NUMEROUS studies that support the truth of what I said.[/quote]

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