<p>is the quality of play at DIII schools on par or above that of top notch high school programs?</p>
<p>depends on which sport, and your definition of 'top-notch' high school.</p>
<p>In football, for example, while the best caliber of high school talent goes to D-I and D-II, the players at even D-III school will be bigger and older than high schoolers. It honestly just depends though.</p>
<p>The competition and talent will be better . These kids are recruited not everyone has the skill to play at the next level.</p>
<p>im on the crew team at a division 3 school and i can assure you its a lot more intense and competitive than high school. that might be because d3 rowing is very good, but overall, it was nothing like high school. you can feel the college athletic atmosphere.</p>
<p>anyone can play high school sports. it definitely takes a certain amount of talent to play in college. the speed and skill are soooo much better. not everyone wants a D1 atmosphere, and there are certainly extremely high caliber athletes in D3 schools.</p>
<p>sometimes d3 kids include kids that were recruited d1 but maybe didnt wanna go...happens alot in lax</p>
<p>Statistically speaking Div III = Good HS Varsity</p>
<p>This is a good and useful assessment. People should keep in mind, however, that the quality of DI and DII programs also varies greatly. I remember watching the Harvard - Yale game when I was in law school and being struck by the fact that my midwestern high school football team could probably have crushed either side.</p>
<p>A lot of DIII schools don’t do much recruitment and allow anyone to tryout/join.</p>
<p>I was an average player on my high school’s tennis team (we were really good) and a coach once told me I could play DIII.</p>
<p>Caltech’s Division 3 sports = my AA high school’s teams?</p>
<p>lol ■■■■■ yeah right lol rofl lol 
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<p>Harvard and Yale are both Div. I-AA, and Harvard has in recent years been a good I-AA team. I doubt your high school was better than them.</p>
<p>This is way too subjective. It entirely depends on what caliber high school and what caliber DIII program you’re talking about. There’s some absolutely horrid DIII sports around, but if you go to school with a DIII football team that makes it to the national playoffs every year then chances are that they can beat a lot of DII schools and maybe even a few of the worst D1AA or some of the absolute worst D1 teams.</p>