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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think athletes who are going to be D1 athletes probably already kinda know that in 9th grade.  It’s a tough decision, to scale back in the sports.[/b] But you have to be rationale about it. My kids have been happier after scaling back and/or leaving their sports to find other activities. There are so many things to try out in high school.[/quote]

This.  My kids dropped club spots and just played varsity beginning in 10th grade because it was clear that they were not going to be D1 athletes.  We had seen[b] too many kids commit to third tier D3 liberal arts schools with merit aid in order to play in college[/b] and not have to pay $95K as an athlete at Bowdoin or Carleton or similar.

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I see this so often and it's baffling to me.  This was the end goal?  Your kid playing a sport and some crap college?  And these are kids who could get in somewhere better.[/quote]

Again, for families who feel they are in the donut hole, most top colleges aren't on the list--they aren't affordable. My DS1 wanted to go to a SLAC, not a big state school. He had the credentials to be competitive for admission to NESCAC schools, but we didn't have the money to send him there. So lower-ranked SLACs that offer merit aid were the only ones available to him. He wasn't an athlete, but this would have been the same choice available if he had been. I can imagine a Maryland high school athlete thinking, "well I can go to UMD (if I get in) or I can go to 'Crap College' and play lacrosse" and deciding that continuing to play lacrosse sounds good. And the education at these colleges you deem "crap" can be quite good. My DS1's experience as a non-athlete at a lower-ranked SLAC was great. Should he have gone to UMD? Why?

Again, most kids--regardless of athletics--are not deciding between, say, Williams and Wooster. They are deciding between Big State School and Wooster.[/quote]

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