<p>i got a question for you guys. I recently got a personal letter from a d3 college about playing basketball there and now i wonder if i can get interest from other colleges and i wanted to ask u guys if this site is a scam or not.</p>
<p>the sites not working for me. just do some research on the school. Im not sure if this particular site is legit but there are a lot of recruitment websites out there that are.</p>
<p>i need some lol</p>
<p>D3 schools are not that hard to play for (relatively speaking, since so few BB players go ont o play in college) so if one coach is recruiting you but there is another school you would rather play at, call the BB coach and let him know you are being recruited by ACME University but want to consider other schools as well. If you were my son, I would have you put together a packet including a game dvd/tape, transript, test scores, letter of rec. from hs coach & club coach, letter of rec from teacher, and a personal letter stating why you would be a great fit for that particular school. Fedex your package so they pay attention to it. Your biggest obstacle is that they can no longer come out to scout you since bb season is over so they will not have an opportunity to see how you act on and off the bench, when you get a bad call, when you are losing, when you are hot or cold, etc, how you interact with teammates, etc. Working in your favor is the fact that D3 schools sometimes have VERY limited recruiting budgets so they are sometimes very happy to have a recruit contact them. The shortcut would be to have either your hs or club coach contact the college head coach and see if they are interested. Once you are being recruited by one school, your stock automatically rises. Make sure they know you are a recruited athlete. Bypass the forms on the college websites that ask potential recruits to enter information-a personal letter or call is better. Know something about the school and bb team and how you fit in before you talk to them. For example: "Coach Smith, I notice your teams run a motion offense that would be pefect for a point guard like myself who is good at distributing the ball." or "ACME College students have an avergae gpa of 3.9 and average SAT of 1800 and live on campus. I would be a good match for your school."
Good luck.</p>
<p>Do schools actually care about their division 3 teams? Would being good enough to run on a D3 cross country team help me get into a school that has a D3 cross country team? (A school in which I am borderline to get into normally)</p>
<p>Many D3 schools care deeply about some of their teams and athletics can play a significant role in getting a borderline student admitted</p>
<p>Awesome, how would I go about trying to get recruited?</p>
<p>Contact the coaches at the schools you are interested in
Send them an athletic resume highlighting not only your athletic acheivements but your academic credentials too.
If you play a team sport, send your schedule and if they are really interested, they will scout you. Have your high school coach call the coach
I am not as familiar with cross country, but I would think you would want to send your statistics, your times etc
Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks :D.</p>
<p>i e-mailed the coaches of the schools that I was interested in playing for and in the e-mails I highlighted my achomplishments and such.</p>
<p>My son is currently a freshman at a Tier 2 college that is also one of the COD. I helped him prepare a resume for his athletic achievements, and he sent it with a personal email to about 10 coaches at schools he thought he might like and might be a good fit.</p>
<p>We started visiting schools in the spring of his junior year and went to 8. He really liked 3 but wound up applying to 5. He was accepted to all but one, and had eliminated that from his list by the time his rejection came anyway. </p>
<p>He started his first semester OK with a 2.3, projects to have about a 3.2 this semester and seems to have adjusted well. In the end, last March we were getting calls about every night from some coach, and he weeded them down to one. Bottom line, he's doing great, a freshman starter and letterwinner on varsity, freshman captain, and we couldn't be happier.</p>
<p>Here's his stats</p>
<p>SAT
370/480/350 (No those aren't typos)</p>
<p>HS GPAs by year
2.2, 2.7, 3.1, 3.4 </p>
<p>Class Rank - about 120/210</p>
<p>This is at a decent but by no means outstanding suburban public HS.</p>
<p>Does being a decent athlete, wanting to play in college and contacting a coach work? 100% you betcha. Two coaches directly told us they got him in. Do you need any outside website to help you get it done? Not at all. In fact you will control your destiny much better on your own.</p>
<p>Here is how I went about the whole recruiting process:</p>
<p>-Start by filling out questionnaires at basically every school that you even remotely want to apply to. This will come in handy later.
-Send supplementary e-mails to all these coaches with basically the same stuff, as often they do not look at the questionnaires.
-Once you start getting interest, make videos to send in to these schools, so they can see you in action. For people in sports solely based on times, such as swimming and cross country, this isn't needed. Just verify your times through your coach, or send him/her a page with online results.
-Register with the NCAA Clearinghouse
-During your senior year, consider visiting a lot of these schools for recruiting trips. You get to visit the school, and meet the team for free (usually)
-Now that you have multiple schools hopefully giving you offers, it entices the coaches to "compete" for you. This wouldn't have worked if you didn't try to get recruited at multiple schools.</p>
<p>The only thing I'm not sure about is when to "commit" in order to get "likely" letters from Ivies.</p>
<p>As for that site, it is legitimate and can be helpful, but only if you are willing to cough up the $2,000 or so they are asking for. Most of this can be done by yourself, with enough time spent on it.</p>
<p>My daughter is registered with BeRecruited. It cost all of $60. Now, Im not sure if ANY coaches use the site as their only means of looking for players…but I CAN tell you that it was a good source of “what schools have her sport AND her intended Major”. Do the list EVERY school in the Country?, I doubt it - is it a starting point for my kid to write letters?, definately. For $60, I thought I spent the money well.</p>
<p>While I agree with most of the posts here, it DOES take alot of work by yourself - any help you can give your student/athlete is a plus. she is thinking about her major vs. the teams win/loss…and that is huge in my book! Good luck all!</p>
<p>I think berecruited.com is a great resource for athletes, particularly in certain sports. My daughter has profiles in three sports and has had lots of coach views and contact, from all three sports. The site now offers a lot more information on the schools then it did in the beginning and that has helped my daughter target the schools that are a fit for her academically and also offer her sport. Best $60 investment I have ever made!</p>
<p>We agree – well-spent $60. Son has profiles in two sports. You can look up colleges by state, which is handy if you want to stay close to home. Also, note that even though a college may not be listed in that particular sport, you can still find websites and email addresses for every college by using the college search function. Then you can email those coaches and say “Please check out my profile” etc.</p>
<p>From some one who didn’t use it-my s just filled out the on-line recruiting form at each of the colleges he wanted to go to/play at. That was all he needed to do to get those coaches calling…</p>
<p>I’m guessing it depends a lot on gender, sport, and where you are in the process.</p>
<p>I know for tennis, tennisrecruiting.net is a lot better than berecruited.</p>
<p>My younger S just got back from an Ivy camp and the coaches told him not to waste his time with BeRecruited.com. Coaches said they are much more impressed by kids who take the time and make the effort to personally demonstrate interest by emailing and calling and giving their information in those emails and calls. That said, cgpm59’s info about the ease of finding those phone numbers and emails makes it sound like it might be worth the $60 anyway!</p>
<p>You can use berecruited.com without paying the $60 - my DD did. She used the site as her introductory web page and as a resource to find colleges with her sport and as an easy reference for school websites/coaches contact info.</p>
<p>She kept track of the contacts she initiated on a spreadsheet, noting when and what her contact was, coaches name, date and kind of response received, notes on conversations with coaches, etc. and kept file folders for each school.</p>
<p>She always sent out her own letters/resumes, so didn’t need the boilerplate versions this site offered.</p>