Hi Everyone, I am a junior in high school and I am very athletic, smart, and I am a passionate individual. I am not trying to brag at all just state the facts, but I am good at every sport I try to play, and I am especiall talented in soccer and volleyball. The problem is, I haven’t been on a club team since sophomore year since my schedule got so busy with rigorous courses and such. I am naturally the best player on my soccer team (MVP last year and this year) and top scorer. I feel that I am wasting my athletic potential to some degree because I am naturally already really good at soccer and volleyball, but I haven been on club teams in awhile:-(. My question is, could I get recruited to these schools for soccer or volleyball?: UVA, Boston College, Stanford (i know- hard and prob not), UF, UNC, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Duke, UMN Twin Cities, USC, UCLA, and NYU. I have a 3.9 GPA UW and 4.5 GPA weighted and also have really amazing EC’s that display my passions very well. How hard is it to get recruited for these colleges at this stage of the game? (idk why i even included stanford because their sports teams are crazy good, but i felt i could’ve gone D1 if i would’ve tried a bit harder:-(. Anyways, what do y’all think???
I think most of the schools you identified are D1 school, and many of them, at least in Women’s Soccer, are top to excellent programs. There is usually a very clear path to recruiting for D1 Women’s soccer recruiting, which involves club teams, national tournaments such as Disney etc. Most D1 programs have filled their rosters, and awarded scholarships, for the current juniors in high school. Women’s soccer recruits – for better or worse – early in high school, juniors in high school who are not yet committed to major D1 programs will have slim pickings. D2 and D3 may well have plenty of flexibility. I am not familiar with the timing of Women’s Volleyball recruiting, so can say nothing about that.
I have a D3 Men’s recruit who has recently committed to his program of choice. What we have discovered is that, while D3 does not have athletic scholarships, the high achieving student in a rigorous curriculum can get very generous merit aid based on academics etc. My student’s D3 merit offers are much more than what a typical freshman recruit at a D1 program would get, given that soccer is an equivalency sport, meaning that a program divies up the equivalent of a certain number of full scholarships across the entire roster. So, depending on what your goal is, D3 can be the “hook” which gets you into a desirable school or gets you merit aid at a school where you might otherwise be full pay. But I’m guessing that high school performance alone is not going to get a non-club player much of a look, after the junior season is complete, for high-end D1 recruiting. Continue to focus on your academics, and use your athletic accomplishments as strong ECs. Good luck.
@Midwestmomofboys thank you! Very helpful information 
you should post in the http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/ forum where parents & recruited athletes who are experienced in this can answer