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Date Posted: 06:01:48 08/29/24 Thu
Author: More
Subject: Any activity gives you a "leg up" on college admissions, not just playing a sport attached to your school.
In reply to: Explanation inside 's message, "More parents and kids are wising up to the fact that Irish dance offers very little." on 08:32:36 08/27/24 Tue

So few are going to college on a full athletics scholarship. If you think your kid is, when they haven't been playing the sport since they were 8, you're delusional. Girls and women's sports are so ultracompetitive at a young age and just as expensive to get your kid into, much less travel everywhere to play, you are spending even more than you do for Irish Dance. On top of this, the politics of getting on the right team is even worse than the judges at a major. Your dancer isn't getting a full ride to a D1 school for volleyball.

In the long run of things, Irish dance is no different than any other sport. The kids get out of it what they put into it and that helps with college essays and makes them look better than kids who did nothing.

Want to impress colleges, it's not sports, it's community service. And with the declining numbers of children in Gen Alpha and Gen Z, college isn't as competitive as it was in the 90s and 00s unless you are in a costal state.

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