<p>PS: If your times appear to be good for Division 3 schools, it can’t hurt to write to the coach at the D3 schools that interest you. That’s how I first got the attention of the Princeton football coach, 35 years ago (and I was a placekicker, so I could be evaluated by my distances, at least to some degree)</p>
<p>If swimming is important to you, go the best academic school you can get into where you are also good enough to be on the swim team. And you’d be surprised how much sway the coach has if you’re good enough. Read about the Academic Index and Ivy League recruiting if you want to know more about how the recruiting game works; you’ll find the game to be generally similar at the top D3 schools as well.</p>
<p>Bear in mind that the coaches court many and dump most, so you need to keep lots of balls in the air in the early going.</p>