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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting state of affairs. Looks like HYPS and the like are still mainlining kids from certain privates - Phillips Exeter, Andover, Dalton, Harvard-Westlake etc. Maybe ten schools. And everywhere else, an "elite" expensive private high school is a significant disadvantage in admissions unless the kid is an URM or recruited athlete in crew, lacrosse or something obscure like squash or fencing.

The college world is asunder. Plan accordingly.    [/quote]

Why would the sports need to be obscure? Basketball and football players tend to get more admissions help than others at top colleges (both D1 and D3). [/quote]

Oh Ok. That's awesome that you have a kid that can play basketball at Duke, football at Northwestern, and hockey at Harvard. Very impressive.

Generally though, those kids go into a very different admissions basket. They're not competing against your kid for a spot. There are millions of kids that play high level basketball, football, and hockey. To score a spot at a D1 school is an incredible athletic achievement in those sports. And every kid worked damned hard to get that spot. I watched some of the Caps game last night. They needed a back-up back-up goalie. It was the Harvard goalie on a short term contract. The commentators noted that he's going to do his 10 days and go back to school to finish his degree in economics.

If that's your kid, super. The kind of students that can do high level big time sports - basketball, football, and hockey in NE and the upper midwest - AND manage high level academics are unicorns. Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Harvard. That's it. Schools such as Duke and Georgetown don't even bother. The athletes in those sports at those schools are effectively employees, like Alabama, LSU etc No different.

But for squash, fencing, sailing, and I'd throw in lacrosse, you can buy your way in. Unlike basketball or soccer, the numbers of teen participants are minuscule. Vaguely coordinated kid? Pay the trainer. To equate a squash kid with a basketball kid is nonsense.

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