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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learned that unless your kid is a recruited athlete, their playing varsity all throughout high school and being named as captain for multiple seasons is not going to make a difference in any way from any other EC.[/quote]

You learned that from DCUM, it's the DCUM conventional wisdom, but you still don't know that for a fact from admissions. In fact you don't know whether any kind of EC made a difference. It's all speculation.

DS was not a recruited athlete but was varsity four years and team captain etc. and was accepted to a great school that rejected many of his classmates who were not varsity athletes, team captains etc. Was his varsity sport what made a difference? Maybe. Who knows. I can't say for sure that it didn't, despite the confidence of DCUM on this issue.[/quote]

I understand what you are saying and do agree but, again as you have written, it is impossible to know all the factors when comparing application to application.

But what I am here to say is that my DS was so involved in multiple HS sports that he did not have the time, or energy, to pursue many other ECs. He relied on just the sports and it did not pay off as we had hoped.[/quote]

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