What happens for college when sports comes off the table

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@doschicos

Some kids do sports AND MUN. Just saying.

Nobody is saying sports are “lesser” but being a varsity athlete isn’t uncommon/unique either and the value in an application diminishes when one isn’t recruitable.

And I do value the time commitment. I had one kid playing a sport at the highest level and juggling 2-3 teams at a time playing 7 days per week and the other committed 18 hours per week to performing arts (and needed to shower ). Both still did other activities.

But that is not necessarily what colleges expect or care about. And while some kids thrive being on the go 24/7, it is detrimental to many (see the poor grades thread). For the record, my older kid was the one who did sports and a bunch of other things. One of her best friends only did ballet, which she quit to go to college (she did have professional job offer but wanted to go to college instead). And she is at Princeton, better school than any of her friends who filled up all or almost all of the EC lines on the application.