Well, "how we do things in my family" is to find the right fit for the child, not the parents' egos! And the edge that we want sharpened is the academic one. As for choosing D3 because there were no D1 offers, it never got that far for our son. He set his sights on the education he wanted first, and when a school expressed interest in him that he didn't think was an academic fit, he told them very nicely that he wasn't interested. So we don't know how many offers may have come. He achieved his goal of continuing to play the game he loves and getting a world class engineering degree from a certain technical institute in Cambridge. By the way, one of his teammates was drafted in the 8th round by the Cubs AND has a kickass education, so it does happen.