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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CAn a kid get a scholarship to one of these privates thru soccer if they are a top player???[/quote]

Highly doubtful, for the following reasons.

1.  Most private schools do not give athletic scholarships.  Financial aid is based on need.

2.  To the extent posters are suggesting that schools will go away from their models of need-based financial aid and give financial aid that is really an athletic scholarship, it is true that this can happen.  But it does NOT happen in soccer programs in this area.  For one thing, soccer is not seen as a marquee spectator sport like football, basketball, or lacrosse (this last is more specific to the DMV).  For another, there are lots of soccer players in this area in the regular private school cohort and schools do not need to go out and recruit hard to have athletes in the program.  Financial aid money is a resource, and that resource, to the extent it is linked to athletic talent even in a "wink-wink" sort of way, is not expended on soccer.

3.  As other posters have noted, the prevailing viewpoint is that the top soccer players are already in the Academy system.  Even expecting soccer talent to weigh heavily in admissions, let alone help get additional money, is a more dubious proposition now, as schools assume that star middle-school aged soccer players may well play Development and be ineligible for the high school team.  So the "thumb on the scales" that basketball or lacrosse may provide is just not there for soccer -- let alone incentive to offer scholarships.[/quote]

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