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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the Bethesda kids go to Ivy League schools on academic scholarship (at least partial) with that consideration given because they are playing soccer. Who cares what pot of money it comes from - take the funds, continue playing high level soccer, and get a good education. [/quote]

What?

Ivy Leagues don't give athletic or academic scholarship.

Bethesda might send a couple kids a year to the Ivies. The majority of them are full pay but some will get need based aid. They also have kids who go to other schools, and kids who don't play in college at all, or who play club. [/quote]

They have a player on every single Ivy League roster right now, sometimes two players. Two on Georgetown; two on Duke and several other ACC schools. Best record of taking kids to the next level in the area. It's really not even close.  [/quote]

And again, the academic background of those kids is NUMBER 1.  They have great grades, good test scores and are coming from good high schools.  And, yeah, many are white.

You cannot compare them against first gen immigrant families without the exposure to education and college path who also are looking for full financial scholarship.

My kid was told by every IVY/high academic D3 they will not even look at a player if they don’t have the grades to get in, or can’t handle the rigor of the school.  I know many kids that failed pre-reads.[/quote]

Neither of the two kids at Duke from Bethesda are white. Neither of the two at Princeton are white.  The Bethesda kids at Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, and Yale are not white. Many are from immigrant families. Did they get good grades? I'm sure they did. But, no need to invent victim narratives that don't exist. [/quote]

You are correct on all except your last point.  It is always necessary for some people to invent victim narratives, because they like to stir the pot.  Since this form of pot stirring has now become an official policy of government (both parties), some people are actually paid to run around the internet shit-posting on random message boards and cause problems.[/quote]

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