<p>The reality is folks that very few kids will play a competitive sport in college and be recruited to an IVY because of it.</p>
<p>My kids are both on Varsity teams beginning Freshman year, but DS was not recruited.</p>
<p>Sports may not be a side dish, but historically BS’s required a sport for character building not because they expected a student to get recruited for college.</p>
<p>Yes, I am happy both kids got to play Varsity teams in two sports each, but in the end they wouldn’t have picked a BS because of it. One in fact joined a JO club in the community which was more competitive than the school’s team, but picked the school because of everything else it offered.</p>