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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't speak to the others but my DS is at Stanford on an athletic scholarship. BTW, he didn't even think about college till he was a rising junior. Graduated with a 3.5 GPA from an average high school. I feel sorry for those of you busting your hump to make your kids stand out from the pack.[/quote]

NP here. I'm not sure I believe this one, either. The athletic recruits I know at the Ivies from the past 1-2 years--and I know a number of them--came from area magnets or Big 3 private schools. These kids had great grades at highly competitive schools and took heavy courseloads of magnet or AP classes. I don't know of any 3.5s at so-so schools who were recruited for athletics to the USNWR top 10. Let's face it, a 3.5 GPA (weighted or unweighted? either way, it's lowish) is basically B or B+ average which may not get a kid into UMD. I'm familiar with the SATs for 3 of these athletic recruits that I personally know, and 2 of them were national merit scholarship semi-finalists (there could be more NMSSFs among the athletic recruits I know, but I don't have that info).

So the Stanford story seems a little fishy, unless her kid was recruited to be quarterback for the football team or something. Definitely none of the lower-profile sports.[/quote]

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