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<p>With all due respect, my great suspicion is that your athlete was more singular than your academic son. Its a lot harder to be all-state than it is to put up 1450 and 3.9 on the academic side. If you are in the group that overlaps both high academic and high athletic, you are highly prized at the elite academic schools. That group is not all that large…which is why the “help” seems disproportionate.</p>