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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]What is elite level athlete?  You are either recruitable, or not recruitable.  [/quote]

You can be recruitable but choosing not to play. If a girl was a starter on a nationally ranked team but chose not to play they still have a fantastic EC. If they were a captain on the team even better. They were elite at their main EC which is the bar.[/quote]

Definitely not true and I say this as a parent of varsity atheletes.  If your kid is not an athletic recruit, sports are among the useless ecs.  May get some leadership points if kid is a varsity captain, but others pretty useless as far as admission as  impact.[/quote]

My son was a varsity captain of his basketball team but not a recruited athlete but 3 kids on his team were high D1 recruited.[b] The varsity captain helped college admissions tremendously [/b]in addition to his strong academics.  [/quote]

Source for this? Where is he going? Captains of teams are ok but generally meaningless. There are many of them at every school...[/quote]

Accepted to a Top 10 and Top 20.[/quote]

Not because he was captain of a team.  [/quote]

I know a kid just like this who was captain of the team, graduated in top 10 of his class, and had very high SAT. It was a total package not just one thing. Certainly the sports helped round out that package.[/quote]

Even you agree being CAPTAIN was irrelevant. Being an unrecruited athlete with a bunch of other excellent stuff, sure, that could help round out a kid.[/quote]

Well it certainly didn't hurt. Not sure what your point is but you clearly just don't seem to like or value sports but that's neither here nor there since you're not a decision maker.[/quote]

Except we are a big sports family…club, varsity, summer, etc. since kids were little. And if you don’t recruit, it means little.

It doesn’t mean sports means little; it means in college apps, it means little.[/quote]

Ok. I can see with my own eyes how many athletes are doing. Maybe it's regional.[/quote]

You don’t make sense. What?

My athlete is heading to an ivy. He was also on SGA all 4 years. He isn’t going to an ivy bc of his sport or sga. [/quote]

How do you know "why" he is going.  Did they tell you?[/quote]

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