<p>I was on berecruited but did not have meaningful contact through it, did not use their letter service. Was good for finding schools though. I did pay a sending fee and used gobigrecruiting.com and found that the schools I was targeting at least really did use it and I was recruited where I was hoping. I also filled out school online questionairs. And sometimes emailed coaches with my youtube highlight link. These things worked and I received the interest I needed. I have committed to an ivy league school. I also totally recommend going to a 1 day clinic or 1 day of a summer camp at the schools you like that have expressed most interest. It is absolutely not necessary AT ALL to pay for a recruiting company service. Coaches want to hear from you personally and its all easy to do.</p>
<p>If your daughter is getting results from a $60 investment it sounds like it is well spent, I do agree, most sports have large events where athletes get exposure, however, I’ll bet with the economic cutbacks using a web-site is cost effective. You can scan the site for athletes you might be interested in checking out. Surely, coaches must realize there are some very able athletes out there who don’t have parents with money to invest in AAU and other select teams. I really don’t know how I did it.<br>
I would have tried a $60 investment had I known about it.</p>
<p>if the athlete in question is a football player, AAU teams arent the answer, ive never heard of a club or AAU football team.</p>
<p>A good service that actually guarantees exposure to college coaches is College Coaches Network [Recruiting</a> Experts | Your College Sports Source for Real Recruiting. Real Results. | College Coaches Network | <a href=“http://www.CollegeCoaches.net%5B/url%5D”>www.CollegeCoaches.net](<a href=“http://www.collegecoaches.net%5DRecruiting”>http://www.collegecoaches.net)</a> They have great personal service and help to get your game film and profile to hundreds of college coaches.</p>
<p>Anyone have experience with College Prospects of America?</p>
<p>Our student is in the midst of the recruiting journey.</p>
<p>First we sent an intro letters–with a resume–of academic stats and athletic stats–back in the fall of jr yr.
Also did the Be Recruited thing.
Our student got interest both through the BeRecruited and the letters.</p>
<p>We did meet coaches at schools where our student was trading emails–spring of Jr yr…and also sent transcripts ans scores starting mid yr jr year as requested. All coaches asking for academic stats for pre-reads got updated transcripts and copies of scores reports in May/end of Jr yr</p>
<p>The web site has helped with researching schools and with coaches seeing our student. Basically it’s a databank where the coaches can put in stats limits and sort/search for kids that match athletically and academically. </p>
<p>Like other technical resources–it doesn’t replace letters, and meet/greets and summer camps etc…
its just another tool.
Whether its helpful will depend on the kids stats–
top in your sport and top in athletics–your kid is going to get plenty of traffic on it.</p>
<p>Our student is getting interest from D1s and ivies as well as top LACs. Well worth the $60…
and
as far as those services etc–I guess if you can type a letter, write a resume, and put together your own video–Why spend the $ for a “pro” to do it/package your kid?</p>
<p>Sometime mid spring we also did fill out the online recruit forms at schools…some have an “update” option–worth doing as the stats get better over the season etc both athletic stats and SATs etc</p>
<p>BeRecruited sounds like a great deal for the price. Agree that NCSA DOES have good information on their website and in periodic newsletters.</p>
<p>I’m still curious about College Prospects of America. We’re attending a meeting where that service will be the one recommended. I have’t been able to dig up any reviews of CPOA. Anyone?</p>
<p>best of luck on your journey Fogfog</p>
<p>Berecruited.com is a great resource but I think results are highly dependant on the sport. My daughter’s sport is well represented on the site and the top coaches all use it. I am not sure what to think about recruiting services. I guess if you don’t have the time or patience to do the research and follow-up yourself, and it is a lot of work, then it might be worthwhile. But I can’t imagine what they could do for you and your daughter that you couldn’t do yourself. And I would have a hard time justifying the expense. Also, I have heard several times from various people that coaches do not like “packaged” athletes. As always, your milage may vary!</p>
<p>I am new to this forum and have no experience with services and wouldn’t be likely to use one in my daughter’s sport. On the other hand, months ago I did pay for her to get a berecruited account. It was exciting and got her focused on the process early on. She had contact with a few coaches by email, but none of them have been of interest to her (or she to them, aside from one or two in whom she has no interest) since the July 1 date rolled around. It is true that the better schools have responded to her direct emails, but some of them have also viewed her stats on berecruited after July 1.</p>
<p>It also provided a quick snapshot of all the important info, which was a great cross-reference when filling in online questionnaires! Although I doubt her ultimate school will come from berecruited, I still think it was a good use of the $60 and I would do it again.</p>
<p>We were at a national competition this spring, and I met a couple of college coaches from good schools, asked one how he felt about the site. He said that he didn’t really use it but sometimes his assistant would look at it.</p>
<p>So it does seem sport-specific, and it also depends on what you want to get out of it. But it did initiate contact in several cases and some of the schools were high end - not ivy so much, but still some very good schools.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, one HYP we met with told us they refuse to deal with “agents” after having had numerous bad experiences with them, which ultimately reflected poorly on the recruits that were being represented. They will only deal with the actual athlete, the athlete’s parents, and coach.</p>
<p>From the berecruited Pulse—Amber Woods, Softball, committed to Columbia University --Austin Busch, Baseball, committed to Briar Cliff University --Alyssa Jarvis, Lacrosse, committed to Notre Dame College of Ohio --Blaire Taylor, Softball, committed to Seward County Community College --Graydon McCrite, Swimming, committed to Berry College --Anthony Ciango, Baseball, committed to Northern Illinois University --Travis Michel, Football, committed to Malone University --Courtney Mahan, Softball, committed to St. Petersburg College --Jenette Diaz, Volleyball, committed to Umpqua Community College --Davis Richardson, Baseball, committed to College of Charleston </p>
<p>Spend your money wisely, all it takes is an edu email account to claim a coach account.</p>
<p>Author, I am trying to understand your point? We get monthly emails from berecruited.com with the same information as you posted above.</p>
<p>Also, if I am not mistaken, that info is a little misleading, because it only means those are students who were listed with berecruited. They may not have connected with their schools through the service, but they report themselves as committed so the coaches will stop contacting them.</p>
<p>We know two who paid BeRecruited at the higher level and it generated some useful amount of interest for them. Both are now with D1 programs. The sport is field hockey. I’m sure they continued all other efforts as well.</p>
<p>berecruited also lists kids who go to club programs.</p>
<p>The recruiting services will link to a Wall Street Journal article on “Do it Yourself Athletic Scholarship”
[The</a> Do-It-Yourself Athletic Scholarship - WSJ.com](<a href=“Do-It-Yourself Services to Get an Athletic Scholarship - WSJ”>Do-It-Yourself Services to Get an Athletic Scholarship - WSJ)</p>
<p>snipping"
"While the services do plenty of work gathering and presenting the athlete’s credentials, it’s up to the student to follow up with coaches and schools.</p>
<p>Parents as Experts
‘I decided I would become the expert in all this’ </p>
<p>‘You really can do this stuff yourself," Ms. Eckburg says. "To pay someone $2,000 just seems crazy.’"</p>
<p>Just curious…why after reading this would you invest $ to pay them? </p>
<p>If it only takes an edu email to be “a coach” do you buy these website stats, on how many coaches viewed your profile?</p>
<p>Committments should follow NLI dates.</p>
<p>Sport </p>
<p>Basketball and All Other Sports Not Listed
(Early Period)
Initial Signing Date: November 10, 2010
Final Signing Date November 17, 2010</p>
<p>Football (Midyear JC Transfer/Early Enrollee)<br>
December 15, 2010<br>
January 15, 2011 </p>
<p>Football (Regular Period)<br>
February 2, 2011<br>
April 1, 2011</p>
<p>Field Hockey, Soccer, Track and Field, Cross Country, Men’s Water Polo<br>
February 2, 2011<br>
August 1, 2011</p>
<p>Basketball (Regular Period)<br>
April 13, 2011<br>
May 18, 2011<br>
All Other Sports Not Listed (Regular Period) April 13, 2011 August 1, 2011</p>
<p>We used CPOA and shopped the others. We went with them because their price was the best and we liked the local rep working with us. Great experience, great results. At the end of the day they all do the same thing. CPOA and NCSA, etc also have online profiles that coaches can see just like berecruited. With CPOA we paid extra because they mail the profile to all the schools as well (and send updates each year which was great since we signed my son up as a sophomore). Our local rep was extremely aggessive with an email campaign, especially before tournaments or showcases. For us the $1,550 was worth it because of all that attention.</p>
<p>^ one post poster
likely an “ad” for this service? Owner of this service?</p>
<p>2nd post! Encourage you to use NCSA, Collegiate Sports of America, NSR if you like them better. These companies don’t have local reps in every city in the county. I would recommend using one that has a local rep…just seems like you’d want to talk with someone face to face on this type of stuff.</p>
<p>Challenge on the Berecruited.
It costs less than $50 a year for this service and it is a useful real service. You are right “standout kids” will be found/seen by coaches, but this service lets the athlete/student reach out in an organized well connected way to colleges THEY may be interested in. I agree with you NCSA service. They want thousands of dollars and it’s BS.
If you don’t think that coaches are on the internet looking for the next great thing for their programs in addition to going to tournaments you are living in the dark ages.</p>
<p>The fact that you refer to AAU it means you are only thinking about basketball. There are many more sports that kids get recruited for and there are a lot of nice small colleges that are looking for kids. DUKE is wonderful, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea or skill level…
And YES Tournaments are huge feeder programs for all the colleges, but some kids AREN’T on a coach’s radar until the kid reaches out. And the BeRecruited.com site gives them that opportunity for less than you pay for a dinner for 4 at the Olive Garden.
fyi. many sports don’t have BlueStar ranking service. Many great kids can’t afford to play AAU or go to tournaments. </p>
<p>Your comments are a year old but would hate for someone to think what you said was actually true so had to comment</p>