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If you place that "poor" student with a "rich" student, and both have exactly the same natural ability and work ethics, that "rich" student will make the varsity team while the "poor" student will NOT.  That's how money can get you.u.[/quote]

My kid is on that tennis team and went to states. I honestly couldn’t tell you how much training each kid had. My kid has played tennis his entire life.

I know some kids who have also played their entire lives and did not make the team so just because you have coaching doesn’t mean you will make the team. Also know many kids who got cut from soccer, basketball and baseball who have played all their lives.[/quote]

You have to compare Apple to Apple, and not Apple to Orange.  If you have two kids, A & B, and assume that both kids have the exact natural abilities.  If kid A has money to get expensive/better coaching and works just as hard as kid B;  However, kid B does not have the resources to get the expensive coaching that kid A does, kid A will make the team and kid B will not.

If everyone is working hard, and has resources to get the best coaches money can buy, at that point, it comes down to natural abilities.  But money does matter.[/quote]

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