<p>I heard that college debate is gaining popularity. I have won many awards at national tournaments during high school. Can I be recruited for debate like people get recruited for sports?</p>
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<p>Yet another bump
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<p>I don't think so. Even though college debate is getting popular, it isn't as popular as sports. Also, many people have good debate skills while not everyone excels at sports.</p>
<p>liberty recruits. americas debaters turn into americas lawyers who turn into americas judges. you can see where this is going.</p>
<p>Yes. A kid at my hs got a full ride to the university of michigan because he is such an amazing debater.</p>
<p>Yes - I also know of someone recruited by U Michigan.</p>
<p>so I am wrong. Sorry! But, I'd suggest you to try either!</p>
<p>Macalester wrote my daughter trying to get her on their team. Of course they sent it in January of her senior year....timing is everything!</p>
<p>Emory is recruiting. THey have a scholarship for it as well.</p>
<p>Drew00 and fourkidsmom, how good are your kids at debate?
How great do you have to be in order to be recruited?</p>
<p>If you won the National Debate championship, or placed in the semis, you would probably get recruited by a school you want to go to, but you probably wouldn't get money. Aka you'd get in and that's it.</p>
<p>The "National Debate championship". Are you speculating, and if not, is this an actual tournament? I'm pretty sure I've never heard of it.</p>
<p>Yes, there is a National Debate Tournament. Generally, the most important tournament though is the Tournament of Champions (TOC). You have to win like two major debate tournaments just to qualify for the TOC.</p>
<p>I'm familiar with the TOC, NFL Nationals, and NCFL Grand Nationals as national tournaments in decreasing order of prestige (I attended the latter). I'm aware of Glenbrooks, Apple Vally, Harvard, and a few others as top-quality national debates as well. </p>
<p>I'm a Lincoln-Douglas east-coast debater. Is the National Debate Tournament a west-coast thing, a smaller national tournament (and if so who runs it?), or another name for one of the things I've mentioned?</p>
<p>I don't really know... I went to a qualifier for it a few months ago. It might be the NFL nationals, all I remember is that it had national in it. :)
I also remember that I did not qualify</p>
<p>its prolly a district qualifier for NFL Nationals</p>
<p>btw any1 here going to NFL Nationals? I'm going in foreign extemp.</p>
<p>I would say if you've cleared at TOC you have a high likelihood of being recruited and receiving a full scholarship. Alternatively, if you are very successful regionally - you might be able to make in-roads with colleges in your region. </p>
<p>I know the following schools recruit & offer scholarships for debaters. The best bet is to contact each college's coach and ask them. </p>
<p>University of Michigan
Michigan State
Emory
Wake Forest University
University of Kentucky
University of Miami
Florida State University
Kansas State University
Santa Clara University
University of Iowa
Central Missouri State University
Washburn
Northwestern
Harvard [unofficially - the debate team is technically a private corporation separate from the university but they offer their own scholarships and have some sway over admission decisions]
University of Redlands
University of Southern California
Arizona State University
Dartmouth
Claremont
Vanderbilt
Washington University
University of Washington
Whitman College
Catholic University
Capitol University
Baylor University
Augustana College
Cornell
University of Richmond
University of Virginia
University of Georgia
University of North Texas
Georgia State
University of Alabama</p>
<p>There are probably more as well.</p>
<p>My daughter does Cross-X. In Kansas they don't go to the TOC tournaments but still go to Nationals. There are two National Tournaments- NFL and CFL. Our High School has been one of the top high schools for debate and forensics in the country (and KU was just rated first in Debate for University- over Harvard and Michigan). She went to State all four years, competing both in two speaker and four speaker. They came in first last year and third this year (this year half the team had food poisoning the second day!)
I know someone who had a debate scholarship to USC about 7 years ago and had them make it not contingent on him continuing debate. He did not do it after freshman year...</p>
<p>cool - i didnt know that ramses10</p>