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Is the college letter of intent the 'worst contract in American sports'?
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D1 schools have much more programs to offer, that's what I generally found with my son. He wants to go into engineering and bigger schools generally have better engineering programs.
D3 seems to be more into liberal arts degrees.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon and RPI. All D3. Find four better engineering schools than those. The first two are tops in the country by a mile.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostStanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia Tech, University of Michigan, Cornell, Princeton... the list goes on. Any flagship state school has pretty good engineering programs.
A better example would have been laboratory sciences. The giant state schools with mammoth medical complexes attached would offer opportunities few D3 institutions could match. In the classic liberal arts departments the top D3s are obviously as strong as any big school.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAnd...
UCLA
UVA
Michigan
Rice
USC
UNC
BC
Yes there are some fantastic schools on the list that I would love my kids to attend. But there's also plenty you've never heard and/or are not strong academically. The good news is there is a wide variety from top to bottom so if D1 is THE GOAL for a player then there may be a program that works for them. For our family it's all about the education. Our kids are good but the pros aren't in the cards by any stretch of the imagination. Finding the right academic program is key - playing decent soccer is a bonus.
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Give it up, this person is simply about proving that the D3 school where his kid went to school was such a better decision than anyone else has ever made here. This is all because they cannot answer in a logical and sane way why anyone would commit all of the time, family capital, and money chasing club soccer when their kids aren't on the D1 track if not for parental ego. You have to know that with this person success is a fancy bauble. It means big name soccer clubs, exotic vacations, chic wines, impressive colleges for the kids, expensive cars and houses. It's how they keep score. They have a pathological need to prove to the world that they and everything associated with them is just better. What irks them about TS is others won a game that they never could because their kids weren't actually good enough chase the D1 dream and so now they spend untold hours here diminishing everything about that D1 dream and those who chase it to feed their ego. Talk about a tired and worn out agenda.
The discussion is about D1 sports and the issues related to athletic scholarships. The D3's don't matter in it simply because they don't offer athletic scholarships.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNot any of the OP's but will readily admit my ignorance at the complete list of D1 schools so I took a look (just starting the process with our oldest, have another coming up next year). http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1
Yes there are some fantastic schools on the list that I would love my kids to attend. But there's also plenty you've never heard and/or are not strong academically. The good news is there is a wide variety from top to bottom so if D1 is THE GOAL for a player then there may be a program that works for them. For our family it's all about the education. Our kids are good but the pros aren't in the cards by any stretch of the imagination. Finding the right academic program is key - playing decent soccer is a bonus.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNot any of the OP's but will readily admit my ignorance at the complete list of D1 schools so I took a look (just starting the process with our oldest, have another coming up next year). http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1
Yes there are some fantastic schools on the list that I would love my kids to attend. But there's also plenty you've never heard and/or are not strong academically. The good news is there is a wide variety from top to bottom so if D1 is THE GOAL for a player then there may be a program that works for them. For our family it's all about the education. Our kids are good but the pros aren't in the cards by any stretch of the imagination. Finding the right academic program is key - playing decent soccer is a bonus.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostGive it up, this person is simply about proving that the D3 school where his kid went to school was such a better decision than anyone else has ever made here....
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