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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DD has a lot of interested from several Ivys for her sport. It’s highly likely that she’ll end up with a couple offers to play.[/quote]

This is delusional. A braggart rich mom in our social circle was telling everyone her daughter — who was actually very talented at a particular sport — had "committed" to a specific top Ivy in 9th grade. She and the daughter continued this until summer after 11th. Then when seniors were making hard commitments to colleges the daughter announced was headed to a bottom tier (academically and athletically) D1 college. The daughter spent a year at the bottom tier D1, then transferred to some random middle of nowhere private college nobody had ever heard of.

Truth is your all A's and good at a sport kid is a dime a dozen. Rich colleges don't REALLY care about sports, they use the athletic rosters as a scheme to pipeline super wealthy kids and increase diversity.[/quote]
Or, far more realistically, this child was a standout player in 9th grade and not so much by 11th.  If you have kids in high level sports around here, you will see that scores of MC and UMC kids do in fact end up being recruited to Ivies and similar level schools with no hooks other than their sports talent. [/quote]

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