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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole system is ridiculous, and what is more ridiculous is that people support this broken system. You have to play for years just to make it into a high school JV team, and once you make it, you have to spend 20+ hours per week training. It takes time away from academics and other extracurricular.

And all of this time and money invested into sports is for nothing for most parents. Most kids will never play at the NCAA level. It doesn’t matter much for college admissions.[b] I know a kid who has perfect grades and a 35 ACT who was a captain of the varsity football and lacrosse teams (and was class treasurer, NHS president, volunteered, and did part time work), and he got rejected from every remotely selective college. The Ivy Leagues, Notre Dame, Michigan, Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UNC, and UVA all rejected him[/b] [/quote]

They are lying to you about the kid's actual grades and/or scores--[i]or something else was a red flag elsewhere in the app[i]. Bad rec or sucky essays--or just very mediocre recs. I'm guessing it's more likely that kid and his parents were lying about his academic record.

My kid got into UVA, 2 Ivies, ND, Gtown, Williams with the same stats you quoted and sports outside of HS, not in.  His friend with similar stats also had the same type of acceptances and is also at an Ivy rd.

There is no way a kid with those stats and activities wouldn't have been accepted to at least one in that group--esp Michigan and UVA.[/quote]

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