Thanks so much for these responses. You’re all awesome.
She’s early days in high school, so we have a ways to go, but she’s pretty good at track (Nike, New Balance Nationals, etc.) and hasn’t really trained hard. We expect a nice uplift with real training five days a week. So by Ivy-ish, I’m talking comparable level sprinters, like Tulane, Vanderbilt, BC-types @LurkerJoe . Maybe Patriot League, which I take to be similar.
But again, a good musician who is in a top youth orchestra and has worked with conductors of Ivy schools in camps. While music is her first love, and she is absolutely committed to youth orchestra through High School, I could see her dropping it in college and just doing school and track. If forced to decide now, however, track would get the boot.
She’s at a very rigorous school now and is already challenged with Symphony and Chamber at school and Youth Orchestra outside, so totally get the difficulty of doing it all in High School, much less college. But our thought was that the relationships and visibility she’s getting in music could be useful come admissions time a couple of years from now.
Kinda feels like you’re saying her “First love” is a nice EC, but that track is the real door-opener for selective schools in D1. This may inform how much time she spends on school orchestra to your point @challengingvenn . But she loves to play. Fortunately we’ve got some time to work through it.
Thanks again for all of your comments.