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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of junior hoping to commit to a NESCAC (not Wesleyan but one of the other more athletic ones), this thread intrigued me. My kid has lower stats for the schools she is looking at, but is hoping to earn a "slot." Mind you, she's a strong student and capable of being a valued member of the community at any school she goes to, for a variety of reasons, which I believe should be the bar. Mistakes freshman year should not prohibit strong student athletes from pursuing excellent schools. In any event, I perused that CC thread and my hunch is this: the main poster whose kid was deferred never said she was promised a "slot." I would guess that most of those athletic "recruits" were not the strongly supported athletes because coaches assumed they would get in on their own. They put too much stock in the coach liking them and didn't confirm that they were one of the one or two coveted "slots."[/quote]

I had the same impression....that the athletes in question were not in the category of slotted all the way through admissions and instead were in the less secure category of just being on the coaches wish list but without any protection.  [/quote]

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