Hi, Mom and Dad listeners, it's Elizabeth. We wanted to bring you another weekend bonus episode

that we thought would be interesting and relevant, especially to you parents with older kids in

sports. The show is all about navigating the college athletics scene, including how to get

recruited, how likely your kid is to get a scholarship, and even how to tell if a program is a good

fit. I'm going to hand the mic

over to host Amanda Ripley, but I hope you'll enjoy and I'll see you back here on Monday for a

regular episode of mom and daughter fighting. What is keeping you up at night about this?

Oh my goodness. Just that I'm going to miss something because I do see that a lot, you know,

where these kids sign to go play

sports at these really expensive schools.

And it's like, did they really want to go there?

Was that their only option?

Did they know that there was other options?

Are there other options?

Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley. Here in the United States, we are obsessed with high school

and college sports, and college is incredibly expensive. All of it is a massive business,

but dreams do come true, sometimes.

So it's understandable that millions of parents secretly wonder if their kid might be a future

star athlete someday, or at least good enough to get a scholarship to college.

This is Elizabeth.

I am a mom to a high school athlete in Kokomo, Indiana.

My son is currently a sophomore, and it's time to start looking at school.

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