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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I would focus not so much on the athletics and the honor/integrity question as on the academics. If your son's grades are good, but not great -- and, more importantly, if he's been struggling the past couple of years -- is he going to be able to do well at the Ivy? Regardless of his course of study, these schools are not only hard to get into but may be hard to stay in as well.

My DH and I went to an Ivy. My DH was studying engineering, and wasn't doing that well -- and the college invited him to take a semester leave of absence to get his head on straight when his GPA tanked. He worked for a semester, went back, and finished his degree -- but it was not a sure bet that he was going to succeed.

As for me, I washed out of pre-med pretty quickly, because classes like chemistry were full of freaking smart engineering students as well as a horde of ambitious biology majors and I simply didn't have the study habits or discipline to keep up and keep my (graded on a curve) grades high enough that pre-med would be a possibility. I changed majors and did really well, but it was a real eye-opening experience.

If it's the right school for him academically and he's well-prepared to handle the coursework, then I think the question of what he should do about his sport comes into play. But if he's not well-prepared and the academics are going to be really challenging -- and he is surrounded by very smart to brilliant kids -- then I'd be a lot more worried about his ability to thrive in the Ivy environment.[/quote]

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