Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about division 3 schools and athletic recruiting. Is this possible?

They are on the lower end of upper middle class. No hooks. Their senior is a good not great athlete. And not an especially noteworthy student. She was not in the most advanced AP courses and her parents kept having her retake the ACT and SAT because her scores were so mediocre. Best ACT sitting was 26 and she was too embarrassed to reveal SAT scores.

Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Anonymous wrote:I think it was incumbent upon you to go to your friend's house, knock on their door, and demand of them to reveal their embarassingly low SAT score.

Who are they fooling? Hopefully, armed with this information you cant make up a sandwich board and parade around your town letting everyone know what's happening.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Some kids may stop playing but, barring extenuating circumstances, they are not losing their merit aid. This isn't D1.

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Anonymous wrote:Ffs, either congratulate them or mind your own business.

Why would you congratulate someone who is lying to your face?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

LOL, indeed. Tell your kid to enjoy soccer and then schlepping pharma to my cardiologist son.

Anonymous wrote:Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about division 3 schools and athletic recruiting. Is this possible?

They are on the lower end of upper middle class. No hooks. Their senior is a good not great athlete. And not an especially noteworthy student. She was not in the most advanced AP courses and her parents kept having her retake the ACT and SAT because her scores were so mediocre. Best ACT sitting was 26 and she was too embarrassed to reveal SAT scores.

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Anonymous wrote:If the choice is small school in the middle of nowhere for free or small school in the middle of nowhere for 50k a year it doesn't matter if you are UMC, paying for college in scenario is asanine and quite frankly none of your business. They throw money at kids for a reason, D3 sports is not a cakewalk... all of the extra time and energy for none of the great facilities and playing for nobody. It's basically club ball with a lot of parents in folding chairs on the grass. I know one kid that went to play at some no-name school with 400 students and they had to farm their own food. They were miserable.

Name the school or it didn't happen. And the school can't be Berea.

Not Berea and it did happen. You not believing it is irrelevant.

Anonymous wrote:To the college-bound children: I apologize for the behavior of the parents on this board.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

You're actually teaching your own lesson here. Kids have to become the best version of themselves. Colleges need a wide variety of such kids. Some of them will be great students. Some of them will be great athletes. No kid can check every box. If the schools you want don't seem to value your kid, try shopping different schools. I did so myself, and it turned out better than I could have imagined.

Not T20s/Ivies.