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[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]

What if kid is not an athletic recruit, but is captain of varsity team and has consistent volunteer history with younger teams (ie, volunteering with little league)? [/quote]

Think about it this way...at the very selective schools there are perhaps 10 remaining applicants in any class where they have decided they are accepting 5 of those 10 and they are all super close to each other.  At this point, maybe, the fact the kid was the captain of a varsity team gives them an additional 0.1 points compared to the others.  Of course, perhaps because another kid took on a leadership role in a volunteer organization, they get an extra 0.2 points.

So 99.5% of the decision was based on everything else.  At the margins, maybe this puts someone over the top.[/quote]

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