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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the costs of competitive club sports, plus coach time and any misc fees, per kid to get them recruited into college?

Does it vary by sport?

What is the cumulative cost for soccer? volleyball? etc.[/quote]

Just have super smart kids who are kind and be the best in the school band or something similarly cheap & they can be at T10/ivy with no recruiting necessary and no sports cost. Both of mine are at different ivies. Most unhooked kids at the ivies are similar. The athletes get usually get mocked for not being as smart. The ones who are smart have to prove it every day in class. Even some professors assume they arent as bright and they are not taken as seriously unless they really put in the effort in seminars. I would never want my kid to be at a top school like an ivy as an athletic recruit, now that we have seen the other side.[/quote]

What people don't get about  top Ivies (unlike, eg, MIT or Cal Tech) is that it is not the best and the brightest - it is a majority collection of legacy, donor, and other institutional priorities. the smartest kids tend to be the ones who qualify for full rides. as for the athletes who "get mocked"? they are the ones, other than the $$ and connected, who will get the absolute biggest payoff of their college affiliation. aside from that, previous poster does not seem to be real, because anyone who thinks a kid gets into Yale for being "best in the school band" (lol) or similar, is living in another generation. the kids who get in for music are highly trained. [b]are there some smart but not superstar and not $$$/connected kids there?[/b] sure, but not many, and they will probably get the least ROI on college.[/quote]

wouldn't this kind of kid get the most out of a TT college? Bc they don't have the family network that the legacy/donor kids do. Or the athletic network of the recruited athletes. So these are the kids actually joining clubs, getting internships (through school) and doing stuff? How is there not a great ROI for these kids?[/quote]

If they are the ones known for mocking other kids — fortunately a small segment of the population — they don’t get the network benefits other kids do. [/quote]

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