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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Athletes from these schools really don't have much of a "hook" getting into the "top" schools. Going through the process now with my kid. Highy desired by coaches almost universally, but can't get past the pre-reads because they're around the 25th percentile for the very academic schools. Middle of the pack "big 3" student and athletics not the hook everyone thinks it is. [/quote]

Yeah, I don't think people understand that for the schools everyone on this Board worries about, you still need really strong academics to get into the top D3 schools, and to get into an Ivy, you need both the academics and to be a good enough athlete to compete at the D1 level. Everyone acts like that's nothing. I don't get it.  When DC graduated a Big3 several years ago two classmates were recruited to play a sport at top Ivies. They were really strong athletes, who had worked really hard at their sports, but also had always taken the hardest classes and had high GPAs. It was not as if they just wandered in and said "here I am."  [/quote]

I don’t think you understand the amount of parental time and resources a kid needs to have access to in order to be recruitable for most d1, d2 (often forgotten!), and d3 sports. Additionally, a lot of the sports that you can get recruited for garner no fanfare whatsoever.[/quote]

Okay cool. What does that have to do with the misperception that athletes going to high academic schools have a "hook" and are less qualified academically? I'll answer that: nothing.[/quote]

I’d like to abolish athletic preference in admissions, especially for sports that don’t generate revenue. [/quote]
Of course you would! [i]You would like for elite colleges to focus exclusively on children just like your own[/i], just like every other parent who thinks it is unfair that kids they deem inferior were accepted to schools that rejected those parents’ children. [/quote]

Not at all. I would like admissions to also focus on children that couldn’t access club swimming or travel soccer.
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Or sailing, fencing, golf, squash, water polo, riding, etc.  The athletic preference is biased toward helping more affluent kids gain admission.  [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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