<p>I am applying to NYU and would like to play tennis for the team. I have read on other posts that if i am interested in playing, i should contact the athletic department. I play first singles at my high school, but i was unfamiliar with the process of contacting the nyu athletic department. </p>
<p>Does anyone have the phone number or email address of the person i am supposed to contact? Also, would it be too late to consider calling?</p>
<p>what athletics department? haha</p>
<p>NYU is very bad at athletics, all division 3 except for fencing. If your remotely good you should have no problem making team. You can call the department (phone numbers on nyu.edu), but you could probably get by just trying out when school starts.</p>
<p>lol thanks.
this may be a little selfish, but would it help my chances for admission if i do contact the athletic department?</p>
<p>no, there was some scandal a few years back and athletics arent allowed to have any bearing on admissions nor financial aid.</p>
<p>Sica64 - Yes, you should definitely contact the athletic's department. The coach will tell you that he or she will do whatever is possible to get you accepted but, honestly, they have no effect on admissions. It doesn't hurt to try though.</p>
<p>hey sica, i'm also interested in playing tennis for nyu and i've talked with the coach and after several phone calls and emails he's asked me to send my nyu app to his office. you should definetly get in contact with him. all his contact info should be on the nyu athletic website (i think <a href="http://www.nyuathletics.com%5B/url%5D">www.nyuathletics.com</a>)</p>
<p>Sica,</p>
<p>It will absolutely help your chances for admission if you are good enough to play on a team, and thats the way it should be (I used to play soccer at NYU). </p>
<p>While Matt is correct that there were scandals, and that indeed NYU does not give out athletic scholarships (no division 3 school does, no ivy league school does), he is wrong to assert that athletics have no bearing on admission at NYU. NYU considers many things in admission decisions, and athletic talent is clearly one of them. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>-NYU class of '00</p>
<p>Is it fairly easy to try out for a team sophmore year at NYU? I play soccer but am not sure if I want to play at the college level. If I am accepted and decide later on to try out, does anyone know the difficulty in this? I figure it wouldn't be too hard since the athletic department isn't that big. Thanks</p>
<p>The possibility of being a walk on depends on how good the team is. The more competitive the team, the harder to walk on. While NYU is not some division I powerhouse like Miami or Ohio St., it does have some well organized teams.</p>
<p>Alright. thanks jwblue</p>
<p>I second jwblue: it helps. Contact coach ASAP and have a "tennis resume" for him/her with all your stats, awards, team standings, etc. A videotape is also very good.</p>
<p>Playing "#1 singles" means different things in different areas of the US and at different size High Schools. My D plays tennis for an incredibly strong HS in S. Calif; she is probably about 4th-5th on her team but still a very strong D3 player, as the 1-3 kids are all D-1 types. Some H Schools in our area even have #1 players who are nationally ranked, almost everyone on her team is a state-ranked level.</p>
<p>For a good idea about your region, look and see where last years' top players from your area wound up. Or ask your club pro to evaluate how you might fare in different college settings. NYU is not an elite D-3 tennis program (i.e. not national ranking or top of regional rank) so it should be less difficult to be a player who would add to the team than at, say, Williams or Emory.</p>
<p>When my D & I visited schools we saw a match that NYU was playing. Only saw their top two players in doubles but they were good. I don't know how "deep" the team is, however.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>ok thank you everyone for their advice. i have decided to contact the athletic department through email. i am going to send an attachment of my academic resume, so they get a better sense of what kind of student i am, a tennis resume, that includes stats and achievements, and a letter of recommendation from my tennis coach. </p>
<p>Does this sound like a good idea?</p>
<p>I encourage you to contact the NYU tennis team coach as soon as possible. It does help. However you are also expected to have a solid academic record as well.</p>
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<p>Although NYU might not be the most competitive school, its athletic programs are well coordinated. My son is on the fencing team and bedminton (intramural club). He absolutely loves them. ;) </p>
<p>good luck Sica!</p>
<p>Yes, send the resume package to the coach personally (not the dept, the coach). Call coach ASAP and tell him to expect your package, then call or email to follow up if you have not gotten reply from coach within about 2 weeks.</p>
<p>i stand corrected,my friend who is a track star was called by the track coach of NYU and the coach told him that my frined was going to be put on the "special list" for admissions</p>
<p>althought my friend has good stats as it is, maybe the coach is just saying that to everyone to try to recruit?</p>
<p>Special List= Admissions will be told that you would be an asset to the team. A little note goes in your file so adcom knows you aren't just "a" soccer player, coach has verified you are a collegiate level, wanted soccer player. </p>
<p>It is a help, but not a guarantee. Depending on situation, there could be ten players on this list and only three of them would get in.</p>
<p>In some sports and some schools, coach might have a <em>ranked</em> list. Player ranked #1 = more pull than player #10</p>
<p>Further, a coach might have a given number of "picks" or "auto-admits" that he could use to make sure a favored athlete would definitely be admitted (as long as academic qualifications were decent.)</p>
<p>Keep communicating with coach to determine where in this universe you are.</p>
<p>Contrary to what Mattistole said, NYU is one of top athletics schools in NCAA division III. While sports are not very popular here we are very good. For instance the women's volleyball team was # 1 in the nation for more than half the season and ended up losing in the NCAA championships semifinal round. The women's basketball team recently lost their first game and is now 6th in the nation dropping for number one. The men's team is a top ten team as well and the fencing team is number one. The men's volleyball team is also top ten. I hardly think that constituted a weak school.
As for whether athletics improves your chances for admission it absolutley does IF the coach thinks that you will be vaulable to the team. I gave my application to the men's volleyball coach personally and he turned it in for me. NYU does not give athletics scholarships persay, but when I got my package back and told my coach that I needed more aid I got it. I go to NYU for about 12,000 dollars a year without loans and if that is not a scholarship I don't know what is.</p>
<p>fencing is division 1</p>