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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it matter if the child plays for the HS or if they are on a club team not affiliated with the HS?[/quote]

you kinda want kids playing for the schools[/quote]

I wish the US would adopt a European approach to scholastic sports. Schools should have nada to do with it, it just detracts from their missions.  Leave the sports to clubs.[/quote]

What is the European approach?  I agree it needs to change.[/quote]

What I just described.  The schools don’t sponsor athletics. Kids can, should and do play sports, but all the leagues are run independently of schools. [/quote]

The problem with this is its the selective colleges that go after athletes too. The privates are just trying to recruit the kids who can get accepted into them.  Have to change sports at the college level and that ain't happening. [/quote]

For good reason.
Study: College Athletes Have Better Academic, Life Outcomes

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/24/gallup-study-shows-positive-life-outcomes-college-athletes

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I’m not saying don’t play sports. On the contrary, actually. It just shouldn’t be the schools sponsoring the teams.  It’s the athletic kids and their parents who favor HS and colleges continuing to sponsor sports because it gives them a hook. [/quote]

Do you understand how ingrained Friday night lights is in American culture? Didn't you ever pack a gym to cheer for your high school basketball team? [/quote]

Maybe for large public schools.[b]  Most elite privates certainly at the middle school level (since you are talking about admissions) do not have enough students to field the teams at that level[/b] - sports are for fun, not particularly to help with admissions to high schools and our school sends kids to the top NE boarding schools.  Our school discourages playing on travel teams and wants kids to play on the schools teams.

My kid goes to an all boys’ private middle school (not DMV) where sports is everyday and mandatory and the main sport they recruit for is ice hockey and even that takes second place after academics.  The teachers at the school also coach sports and many of them played sports in college like football at Amherst, squash at Yale, etc not exactly Friday night lights.

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Which is precisely why high schools have to be selective and recruit in order to field teams [/quote]

Lol!  The sports teams are mandatory and for fun.  If they can play, they are in.  The level of selectivity is not high at all.  Also, it’s middle school and many kids get introduced to sports they have never tried before and their skill level is beginner.  Athletics is not high on the admissions criteria except for hockey.[/quote]
My kid is one of the top players in the area in a valued sport and got waitlisted at a big 3z[/quote]

How was their academics?  Grades and test scores?[/quote]

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