Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
This applies to just a handful of kids. Again delusional parents for the most part. Talk about the bottom 97% of kids that's more realistic the talk about ivies and full rides is overpowering on here


I think lax helping you get into a better school applies to all the kids. Doesn't just mean Ivy. It means it can open up options that most kids without a talent in a sport (or other discipline) don't have. It might mean getting into a school like William and Mary or Colgate (GREAT SCHOOLS) when the next tier or two down academically was all that would have been possible. Or Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette or many others. It could also mean getting into a better D3 school academically than would have otherwise been possible. The ability to use lax to heelp get into a better school applies to many more than 3% of the club playing girls, particularly if they hit the books as well. And yes, for the most talented 3% that also are good students, places like the Ivies, Stanford, Duke Northwestern and a few other extremely difficult to get into schools become realistic, when for most even unreal students, they r not.


Depending on the program coaches can walk almost anyone through the door, especially on the boys side, but many girls as well. Plenty of NW players over the years who would have never had a prayer of getting in there that did because of lax[/quote]

You think the the Duke or Stanford or Harvard kids r getting into those places without lax??? Almost all of them r not. It is true for all of those schools. Almost all of them would have "no prayer". But yes, Amonte-Hiller has put NU on the sports map and has helped the University as a whole in ways that maybe no other women's lax coach/team has. So yes, she probably does have more pull w admissions than some others. But u r not getting into Stanford or Princeton w 31 ACTs and 3.6 grade point averages as a normal applicant. And yet there are plenty of kids that got exactly that (and less) and r playing at those schools. In fact u usually need 35-36 ACTs and 4.0s in all AP classes to even have a chance to get into one of those schools as a "regular" applicant. Best Harvard player last year was a mediocre "B" student in high school. Ain't just NU, hate to tell you.