I am a Junior and I currently have a 3.28 GPA unweighted and 3.41 GPA weighted. I took AP World History and AP Psychology last year and passed the tests with a 3 and a 5 respectively, and this year am taking AP Environmental Science, AP U.S. History, and AP English Language. Unfortunately because I put so much of my effort into getting A’s in my AP classes, my regular classes fall to the wayside and last semester I got C’s in Med Term and Med Lit. (I would drop them if I could but at this point am not allowed to.)
I run Varsity Cross Country, (girls team) and have a 5k PR of 19:37. My DREAM is to run at a D2 college with a scholarship but I don’t know if that’s likely or even possible given my somewhat sketchy GPA… Any thoughts?
Any suggestions for D2 schools that I can get into and probably run at would be really appreciated! I also would love to hear about any (positive or negative) experiences running collegiately y’all have!
I’d start with finding schools that match your academic interests where your GPA/Test scores are somewhere in the middle 50%. There are all sorts of search tools available.
Next you can start looking at some of the schools from that list that jump out at you - go to their websites and look at recent meet results. You’ll be a good match at any school where you are close to the top 3 or 4 runners currently there.
I think there was another thread here recently about how to convert times from hs to college (different distances) - or maybe somebody else can chime in here.
From there, start emailing coaches. Tell them you are interesting in their school, tell them why you are interested, tell them a little about yourself and your running experience and tell them how they can get a message to you (HS coach, club coach, etc). Also fill out the recruiting questionnaire available on most college websites.