<p>I apologize in advance for the difficult question, I'm just hoping to find someone who might have had a similar situation.</p>
<p>Anyways, I am currently a junior in high school in the Washington DC area. I'm interested in looking at schools in the Northeast and New England, and some of the schools I am looking at, happen to be great NCAA alpine skiing schools (Dartmouth, Colby, Middlebury, Boston College, Bates, Williams, you get the idea). I would definitely call myself an avid skier, my family goes to VT for winter break to visit family and we go to the PC for spring break skiing. As I said before, my family is from VT and I lived there up until the age of 10. In VT, I was an active U8 and U10 team member, but moved to DC. I've kept up with skiing on vacation, but I haven't been on a team for years. I've always wanted to get back on a team but with school and the distance from a good club, I haven't. But for my senior year (and good timing for the most part at that), my school has made a major schedule change that has allowed me to go to a club an hour away in PA. I guess what I'm trying to ask is, at some of the schools I mentioned, what are the chances of a walk on for alpine skiing? I see no point to filling out recruit information as I have no times and will not until the winter 2014-15 season. I also know most kids on the ski and ride teams at NCAA schools come from strong CO, UT, and VT mountain/winter sports schools, which I obviously do not. If this doesn't seem like the best idea, any recommendations for a strong team at a strong academic school? I'm limited to the East Coast and Midwest. I would say I'm a pretty good student, A- average, 1875 SAT, 3 AP courses (English, Chinese, & Art History). </p>
<p>Are you looking for skiing to be helpful in admissions or are you just looking for a great academic school where you will be able to ski for pleasure? As you mentioned, the alpine skiing rosters at most of the schools you mentioned are filled with prep school/ski academy kids that have focused on ski racing for years. But plenty of the schools you mentioned are close to very good ski resorts. I believe Dartmouth even has their own ski facility for students. </p>
<p>If you just want to do it for fun, it looks like there are a few D-3 colleges that, most likely, will have ‘walk on’ tryouts. I don’t think any of the D-1s will. Whether showing an interest will get you a leg up on acceptance to a D-3 is questionable - you’ll just have to ask each school.</p>
<p>Didn’t see these until today because my email notifications were off from CC but thanks for the responses!</p>
<p>To PSM2013, I’m definitely looking for a good academic school where I will be able to ski for pleasure, however, getting a leg up in admissions certainly wouldn’t hurt. I’ve spoken to my college counselor and she said that it might look good to some schools who aren’t as skilled in alpine or have strong club teams. They are always looking for something they don’t already have right?!
To twoinanddone, Thanks for that list! I will certainly look at that. For USCSA schools, do you think I’d be able to compete and/or practice with them and also compete for another club so I could rack up on my USSA points and take part in those races?
To 02hockeymom, definitely working on that score. That was from my first SAT and I’m currently taking a prep course for the May SAT and I’m aiming for an upwards of a one hundred (dreaming of a two-hundred) point increase. </p>
<p>Thanks again for all those answers! One more question: does anyone know anything about Brown or NYU’s alpine team? Both of my parents went to Brown and mentioned their team to me, however, they don’t know too much about it. I noticed it was a varsity sport with no recruitment and it’s a USCSA team. Would they accept walk-ons? My sister goes to NYU and knows absolutely nothing about the team or anyone on it.</p>
<p>Also, right now I’m not really interested in the “what are my chances” part of this (academically), because I still have awhile to improve and everyone is a different applicant and different schools consider many different elements. I’m kind of looking at this with a perspective that I’m already in a school and I’m just looking at my options for when I get to campus for revisits and ultimately, in the fall. Sorry if that came out a bit rude, but that was not what I was intending (:</p>
<p>Brown was, and I believe still is, entirely self-funded, and that’s never a good sign for the long-term health of the program, IMO. Also, I’m assuming you’re female because Brown doesn’t have a men’s team.</p>
<p>D3 would be more likely to take walkons than D1 I’m guessing. But if you’re applying as a walkon you don’t get help with admissions. If Bates and Colby have teams they’re probably your best bet.</p>