Can someone discuss the benefits of D3 soccer.

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If you like you can vette the rankings of a college/university just like the rankings of a soccer program.

Of course you can. I've likely pored over more school common data sets than you ever will.

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The coach tells them to schedule classes after 11 a.m. in the fall and before 4 p.m. in the spring. It is not hard when you literally have your pick of classes before all other students. Conflicts in season are mitigated because the professors are very accommodating when it comes to D1 athletes.

That's what we saw. Pick of the litter when it comes to scheduling and yes, professors are accommodating. Students still need to do the work and I won't see it's not a challenge, but with any challenge you can overcome it with tools and support....which they are flush with.

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Why does another child doing it tell you about your own child? you know your child right? you dont know the person referred to from a hole in the ground. if you as a parent dont have a handle on what she is capable of, how does a random person on a forum help? Serious question.

I know my child, but I don't know what life is like for a D1 athlete at a good school, so I asked for more context/detail. Why are you getting so bent out of shape by someone asking for more detail?

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The coach tells them to schedule classes after 11 a.m. in the fall and before 4 p.m. in the spring. It is not hard when you literally have your pick of classes before all other students. Conflicts in season are mitigated because the professors are very accommodating when it comes to D1 athletes.

So is that why athletes get priority when selecting classes? And this also implies that there are classes that players can't sign up for because it doesn't fit their schedule, right? So if the biology lab with the professor s/he wants is before 11am or after 4pm, s/he can't take that class? Labs for STEM majors are also dependent on other students (group work, etc), so it's not always dependent on the professor.

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Large public with good academics but not USNWR top 50.

So probably not that demanding. Cool, best of both worlds!

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I know my child, but I don't know what life is like for a D1 athlete at a good school, so I asked for more context/detail. Why are you getting so bent out of shape by someone asking for more detail?

im not bent at all. its funny that you see an internet forum as a source of more detail for a decision that you clearly see as important. some guy in his PJs and a cup of coffee telling you general stuff about his childs experience as if it really applies to you. Hey, do you. I just find it funny.

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is USNWR not top 50 your definition of a "good school"? Not top 50 could mean 250th.

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is USNWR not top 50 your definition of a "good school"? Not top 50 could mean 250th.

I'm not outing my child. Think whatever you want. Med schools will be very familiar with the school.

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So probably not that demanding. Cool, best of both worlds!

The med school will be top 20. That's all that really matters. Good luck to your child.

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No one commented about you having a clue about yourself nor if fans of elite LACs know of other LACs across the country.

For clarity the context of the conversation was about the majority of US population and their relative awareness of academically elite institutions outside their area. Despite a poster validating this with comment about Wash U (in STL but confused with PNW), you called a TS poster Anonymous and Clueless while being exactly that.

Walk through Anytown USA and ask random folks to match Bowdoin, Grinnel, Harvey Mudd, Tufts, Holy Cross, Swathmore, and Davidson with their state. What % going to get all those right? Note i mixed in some D1 so I wasn’t picking on D3, but all are selective LACs. The point is most people dont know and dont care, unless, as another poster said, they commonly take The Acela

Serious Q: do you fall on the spectrum or maybe have a mild form of Asperger’s syndrome? You seem to have trouble maintaining context as the posts and subsequent replies get separated, and limit your reply to the statement in post as if it were in isolation.

This ia a MA focused board. Most people aren't leaving Boston to go live in the middle of Anytown USA. Therefore they will be in professions and cities filled with people who do know Johns Hopkins, MIT, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst etc. I have been involved with multiple businesses from Fortune 500- start ups that went to IPO. No one cared if you played D1 soccer Baylor or Alcorn State but the certainly cared if you went to Williams or MIT.

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So is that why athletes get priority when selecting classes? And this also implies that there are classes that players can't sign up for because it doesn't fit their schedule, right? So if the biology lab with the professor s/he wants is before 11am or after 4pm, s/he can't take that class? Labs for STEM majors are also dependent on other students (group work, etc), so it's not always dependent on the professor.

You'd be surprised at how late classes and labs are held in college. Additionally there is more flexibility in the spring semester. I guess people forget that college students did a lot of schooling through video a couple of years ago which makes some labs and group work easier to keep up with. Any strong academic student with good organizational skills can get it done. One of the issues with college classes is that every regular student wants theirs to fall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m with Fridays off and only the best professors. Those students deal with disappointment every semester. Most of the time it's because athletes and honors program students have already registered for all of those classes. If a D1 athlete occasionally has to deal with the aggravation normal students face all the time so be it. In the end the pathway for the D1 athlete is much easier and enjoyable.

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This ia a MA focused board. Most people aren't leaving Boston to go live in the middle of Anytown USA. Therefore they will be in professions and cities filled with people who do know Johns Hopkins, MIT, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst etc. I have been involved with multiple businesses from Fortune 500- start ups that went to IPO. No one cared if you played D1 soccer Baylor or Alcorn State but the certainly cared if you went to Williams or MIT.

You severely overestimate the brand reach of east coast D3 schools not named MIT and JHU.

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I'm not outing my child. Think whatever you want. Med schools will be very familiar with the school.

mess not asking you to. Just pointing out how taking advice from a rando on the internet is pretty stupid. Especially when it comes to your child

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im not bent at all. its funny that you see an internet forum as a source of more detail for a decision that you clearly see as important. some guy in his PJs and a cup of coffee telling you general stuff about his childs experience as if it really applies to you. Hey, do you. I just find it funny.

So then you are just a troll? Isn't that even funnier?

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You'd be surprised at how late classes and labs are held in college. Additionally there is more flexibility in the spring semester. I guess people forget that college students did a lot of schooling through video a couple of years ago which makes some labs and group work easier to keep up with. Any strong academic student with good organizational skills can get it done. One of the issues with college classes is that every regular student wants theirs to fall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m with Fridays off and only the best professors. Those students deal with disappointment every semester. Most of the time it's because athletes and honors program students have already registered for all of those classes. If a D1 athlete occasionally has to deal with the aggravation normal students face all the time so be it. In the end the pathway for the D1 athlete is much easier and enjoyable.

At most strong-academic schools, STEM classes (particularly engineering) are graded on a curve (eg. average grade is a B, half the class above it, half the class below it), and those who are just "managing" it, are competing against those who are focused 100% on it. Good luck with that...