@Midwestmomofboys I’ve been looking at rosters to find DIII schools where a) where many of the guys major in a hard science or engineering, b) are 3 letter guys (3 varsity sports in HS) rather that USSDA/US National team players, and c) ECs such as honor society/latin club/science olympiad listed. a) is the criteria that weeds out a lot of schools. So far Carnegie Mellon, RIT, RPI, Case Western, and Washington Univ have teams that sound like my son. Part of the purpose of the trip is to help him decide about soccer in college and how he wants to (or not) factor that in his college decisions. By summer before his junior year he needs to start contacting coaches and doing some more targeted id camps. However, he won’t know if he’ll try to get recruited until after spring semester of 10 grade. If he has the grades and test scores, he wants to apply ED to his dream school—which happens to be impossible to get into and where he couldn’t get recruited for soccer. Applying ED at one school rules out getting recruited elsewhere I think. But those decisions are still awhile away. Right, now it’s just an opportunity for him to visit two or three of those schools listed above while we are in the area and a few other schools so he can see a diversity of schools (big, medium, LAC).
@bouders Hmm, good to know re engineering at U of T, Waterloo and UBC. Well, they are also excellent for math, so we’ll at least visit U of T and UBC. We’ll be in Toronto anyhow and UBC is nearby. But I’ll check out Bill Anderson’s blog. It’d be good for S to at least make sure that applying for engineering is an option (by doing the right pre-reqs).
@TooOld4School @bouders I thought about Michigan and Cornell but our in-state flagship is Univ of Wash. I’m not sure they offer anything substantially different and would be more expensive. All big research universities, all have strong math and engineering programs, all have DI soccer (so out) and Cornell doesn’t have a club team I think. U of T and U of Waterloo are similar too, but they are places where S could get coaching in his other sport if that became a priority for him. However, if we go east instead towards Cleveland then I’d still swing by Cornell since it’d be on the way.
@insanedreamer Yes, RPI is on the list of schools I thought would be good to visit. But we’d only do that if we went east (Toronto, Rochester, Ithaca, Albany) instead of Toronto, Rochester, Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Nothing is set yet except that we fly into Toronto.