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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4721477, member: 153"] About D3 and athletics, the secret that few people talk about is that the teams will be partially stocked with students who are decent or marginal athletes, because they are students from affluent families. These families use the summer athletics special admissions window to shoehorn their kid into the school. Otherwise, the student would not be admitted based on grades, etc. This helps the school because it allows them to lock down their budget with full payers long before the Early Admissions window. This is also the reason why 35% of students at these schools play on sports teams, and why prep schools often require all students to participate in sports. Varsity Blues is very real. This doesn't mean of course that top athletes don't play D3 or that all D3 athletes are full payers. Not at all. [/QUOTE]