Originally posted by Unregistered
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1. Absolutely not true. My D was more focused on getting good grades than most of her non-athletic peers. She choose her school based on ranking specific to her major and not the overall rankings that people like you view as the end-all be-all (however, her school is quite highly ranked in those metrics as well). Countless studies have shown that athletic females have greater career success and are significantly less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. These are not hard to find, and since you have some internet skills, you can easily find them yourself.
2. True. Women's soccer at my D's school is not fully funded, but she gets 75% athletic and 17% academic. The 8% plus personal expenses we pay per year ensures she will not be burdened with student loan debt for the next 20 years.
3. If your child cannot have any interests or passions outside of a 4 year playing commitment, there are issues there that run very deep into her pysche that you as a parent should have noticed long before she got engaged in the D1 athletic pursuit. It would not matter what that child pursues, those issues would persist, just in different forms.
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