I lived in San Antonio for about 5 yr when I was a kid. We went on a cross country road trip a few years ago and I got to take a picture in front of my old house with my kids. It was pretty great! 
UTSAâs program is NSA-certified âacademic center of excellence.â That + weather, ânot too far awayâ and affordability all put it on âthe list.â We havenât visited campus yet.
Congrats!!
Even if theyre not recruited, HS athletes may still have an advantage in the admissions process because schools like these type of kids.
For example, when my nephew visited Notre Dame, he said about half the kids were team captains of a HS sport. He really liked it because he was a multi-sport athlete/team captain (all district but not recruited), He probably couldve played D2/D3 Hockey had he gone to prep school but chose to attend public high school.
One of D24âs friends got into Yale. She wasnt a very top academic kid, wasnt a NMF, but played 3 sports and was all conference and team captain. Other than sports, didnt win any awards.
I am not sure URM has a higher acceptance rate anymore with the Supreme Court decision a couple years ago. And, while I agree the ED rate for unhooked kids is not as high as the published percentage because of all of those groups, it must still be somewhat higher for all of the admissions counselors and experts to be recommending their unhooked students apply ED if they have a clear first choice. Otherwise, no real benefit for the student beyond knowing in December or January. Which for most, is not in and of itself worth the trade off of choice of giving up potential options and possibly significantly less expensive ones.
Very good point! Iâd like think some of those schools would like a kid who was as intense about music or theater just as much, but may just be wishful thinking on my part.
IMO 100% true.
C26 got the Pitt video today too!
And we got a parent email, which I forwarded to DH who is stuck at an airport with a 4ish hour flight delay so he has time to read all the links, haha.
Woooo congrats! Sounds like a great option for your kiddo! 
We stayed in San Antonio on a family vacation when our kids were small, and itâs a fun area. Of course, we did all the touristy things â we went to Sea World and had a special lunch behind the scenes with the whales for our twinsâ 8th birthday, went to the Alamo where we absolutely asked about the basement (tour guide was REALLY tired of the Pee-Weeâs Big Adventure reference, LOL), got an old-timey portrait taken in New Braunfels, walked along the Riverwalk, etc.
Still, it seems like it would be a nice place to go to school!
Awesome! Congratulations!
Smooth travels and please report back! Whole handful of potential Pitt students here, lol. Weâre not visiting until February, so I would love to hear all the tea.
There was an article somewhere where Dartmouth had 25% of ED as recruited athletes Ahh found it.
For ED âThe children of Dartmouth alumni represent 15% of the accepted students and recruited athletes make up 25% of the group.â You then have âfirst-generation students (15%), foreign citizens (12%), and students of color (35%)â.
I donât think other schools would be too far off, 40% of ED is athlete and legacy. Add in first generation students and half the ED spots are already gone. You can see where your student might fit into one of the buckets and figure if ED will really help or not. I donât know if other schools publish the breakdown but they should. It would avoid people having to guess at things.
Those percentages add up to 102% so (one assumes Dartmouth can add) there is presumably at least some overlap between the categories. I note there is no breakout - and nothing left other than what may be remaining from the overlap -for unhooked domestic applicants. The high % of foreign students admitted in ED is interesting.
ahh interesting I would bet there is a big overlap between public school admitted and athletes. At our large public school in the Bay Area every single Ivy admit from last year that I saw on IG was a recruited athlete. All were amazing, all state teams, record setting etc. I didnât see any non-athlete post acceptance except to Stanford.
Okay I marched up to D26âs room and asked to see this video after reading this comment, lol. And, what are you talking about? Mine thought it was super cute! Kids are so funny with their reactions to things. 
I didnât get any kind of parent email, though?
In exciting news, the cast list came out for the spring play, and D26 got a great role! Spoiler, theyâre doing Clue, and sheâs playing Mrs. White. The notes say her character is âdry, deadpan, morbidly funny, and tightly woundâ â and sheâs suspected of killing several of her ex-husbands. Um, yeah, sheâs going to love playing that! 
Thatâs at the end of March, but at the beginning of February, theyâre doing Newsies for their winter musical. D26 only has a couple of tiny bit parts with maybe a couple of lines, and sheâs in like one production number. But no matter, she is having a blast with music rehearsals â because she gets to sing from the wings. So itâs all Newsies all the time in our house for the next few months! (Thank goodness I love this show. Or possibly I just love Jeremy Jordan. Whatever.)
She is so happy about all of this, and itâs gratifying to see. 
All this to say, the rest of senior year is pretty much mapped out for my kid. It got real, really quickly!
Thatâs so strange, because i think almost all our Stanford admits are athletes! But we do definitely get non recruits to most of the ivies, although I think the Harvard admits have all been recruits.
Congrats on the play, that sounds fabulous!
The email was titled â The University of PittsburghâWhere Panthers Pursue Their Passionsâ. Looking again it is actually from Dietrich, but your D is Dietrich too right? Maybe you got it earlier as your D was admitted earlier? It could just be coincidence that it came the same day as the video.
Yay!! Congrats 
I was more excited about the video than my kid 
DHâs flight delayed again. 10 hours late!!!
Thanks for this, great information even if it is a few years old. 15 and 25% of ED to legacy and athletes does not surprise me.
Several of the categories seem obvious overlaps. Public school and first gen and students of color all likely have some significant overlaps. Athletes likely overlap with several of those as well.