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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You never want to be the dumbest kid in the class.  The view that your kid didn’t pull top scores or grades because they spent time playing their sport is wrong.  The kids who did get the top grades and test scores, and were not playing sports, were doing other things - art, music, tech, whatever.  They just are smarter.

That’s fine.  Go to a college where your kid’s academics are at least in the middle of the pack.  It is hard enough to play a sport and do okay academically in college when you are not the dumb one.

[b]Even at an academic D3 college, the coach does not care about your kid’s grades other than they have to be good enough that the coach never hears anything about them.  The coach does not give a rip if your kid has a test or a paper due.  Practice is at X time, and  your kid better be there.  It’s not high school.  You can’t call and tell the coach Billy has to study.  [/b]
It is - always - sink or swim.  Most kids sink.  
Kids who are in over their heads academically to begin with are almost always going to sink.

Think I’m wrong?  Do this.  Go to the team website for the high academic school you’re thinking your kid wants to get into.  Look at last years team.  How many seniors are on it?  Go back 4 years and look at that team.  How many freshmen?  If 50% survived until senior year that’s very good.  Very often it’s less.  Injuries can happen.  Kids turning out not to be good enough can happen - a lot, and kids flunking out.

Don’t start off underwater.  Playing a sport is a huge time commitment.  In season it’s easily 40 hours a week plus travel.  Off season it’s 20 hours.

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Maybe your idea of serious high school sports (that is, kids who want to try to play varsity in college) is different than mine. My sports obsessed high school kid would never skip an event or practice to study, for better or worse. And I certainly wouldn’t EVER EVER get involved. Of course there are those kids and parents who do this (and admittedly I wouldn’t mind if my kid was like this, but he’s not) but this discussion is about serious athletes, no?

My feedback from the strong academic D3 schools so far is that they work fairly hard to accommodate academics and know that is a high priority as well as the sport. They said that they will work with professors to get exam and paper extensions, and one coach mentioned that all classes end by 4:30 so all student athletes can practice together. Another mentioned they have travel tutors. [/quote]

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