<p>Where can I get recruited for NCAA Div 1 Fencing?
Looking at Brown as of right now...</p>
<p>You can be recruited wherever your academic stats match the standards of the school and your athletic skills match the needs of the team. </p>
<p>Let’s start with the basics. First, tell us about your fencing. Are you M or F, which weapon, USFA rating, national rank, if any, and your best results to date?</p>
<p>Then, academic. W and UW GPA, class rank, test scores?</p>
<p>Based on your answers to these questions, I’ll try to point you to some good programs for you, and I’ll try to give you some insight into recruiting at those schools.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Male, Epee, C- Rank USFA, no national rank.
3.7 UW, 4.6 W GPA
Top 10% in competitive high school
SAT: 2250, ACT: 35</p>
<p>This will be more productive if you’re truthful. Please post your real stats.</p>
<p>^whats unrealistic about those stats?
also: wow there are a lot of fencers here</p>
<p>Danishpastry, I dont normally pull up peoples posting histories, but I recognized your screen name from a few weeks ago when Id helped you compute your best possible future GPA on this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1094006-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1094006-gpa.html</a>
In that thread you were a sophomore with a 3.14 UW GPA.
As you might recall, I set up a spreadsheet for you and helped you determine that if you pulled straight As for the rest of your HS career, including 4 summer courses, you could get your UW GPA up to a 3.66 by the middle of your senior year.</p>
<p>So how is it that you now have a 3.7?</p>
<p>On your Princeton chance thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1083823-chance-guy.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1083823-chance-guy.html</a> you were a HS senior with a pair of 800s on SAT IIs and a questionably inflated GPA. It seems that you’re making up test scores as you go and don’t seem to remember your various scores from thread to thread. Interestingly, in your Princeton thread you mentioned your lacrosse and badminton, but you didnt talk about being a fencer.</p>
<p>Are you really a fencer?</p>
<p>Then theres your Cornell fencing thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1100640-fencing.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1100640-fencing.html</a>
For a prospective college fencer, you seem to know amazingly little about college fencing. First, Cornell doesnt have a mens team and, second, Columbia has been in the Ivy cellar for the past few years.</p>
<p>Theres nothing wrong with being misinformed, though, and Im glad youre trying to learn.</p>
<p>I have direct experience with D1 college fencing recruiting and Im happy to share my knowledge and experience. Check out this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1012720-fencing-future.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1012720-fencing-future.html</a> to see how much I like to help.</p>
<p>But please, dont play the ■■■■■ here. Based on your other threads I think youre a HS sophomore with a bunch of bad grades and no standardized test results yet. I suspect you wouldnt know an epee from a foil and wouldnt know which end of either to grip.</p>
<p>If youre sincere, come clean, tell the truth, and let me help you. Prove me wrong.</p>
<p>I don’t get it sometimes. Maybe it’s just spring break and kids are home and bored. Sherpa, your reputation for providing thoughtful, detailed replies for all things fencing may have made you an unwitting ■■■■■ target.</p>
<p>@danishpastry123, please go back to high school life or wherever 10th graders hang out and stop wasting the time of people who are here to help serious athletes with recruiting questions. I don’t know what got you on the fencing kick, perhaps you see it as an opportunity to make up for your poor academic performance. In any case, come back when you are mature enough to be serious and straightforward with you information, if you are indeed in need of recruiting advice.</p>
<p>OP, please be mature enough not to disrespect the helpful adults who take their time to guide students through the recruiting process. You could be more successful with college admissions if you spent your time studying, or practicing whatever sport you really play, instead of ■■■■■■■■ on here.</p>
<p>Sorry for my little joke there…
Didn’t realize this thread is so serious.
However I do know the difference between and </p>
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<p>It’s not a matter of a thread being serious, but rather a matter of you being honest. When you ask for other people to help you, it is imperative that you be honest and maintain your integrity. Otherwise, you will lose all credibility with those who can most help you.</p>
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<p>Nah. It’s not that there are so many, we’re just larger-than-life :D. Besides who wouldn’t want to be a fencer? What’s more sexy than Wesley fencing lefty?</p>
<p>Sherpa- Your excellent sleuthing skills and patience are to be commended! Good job.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with a bored ■■■■■ is the lack of consideration & respect for someone like Sherpa. Sherpa definitely has way better things to do than waste time giving solid and thoughtful advice to someone who obviously couldn’t care less. It is just basic courtesy - and I’m sure this “fencer” could find many more worthwhile things to do over what must be a boring spring break, than to abuse the trust and sincerity offered up by Sherpa. </p>
<p>Now, let’s stop giving this “athlete” the attention they are seeking :)</p>
<p>^^^^^Amen to that.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the fellow parents for your support. Mayhew is right. I have, or at least I should have, more important things to do with my time. DS is happily at college, DD leaves in the fall. There is no healthy reason for me to check CC daily anymore.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Edit: that must sound melodramatic and brooding, but that isn’t my intent. I just realize it’s time to move on, and it might not be easy.</p>
<p>sherpa, take a break if you have to, but come back! I know you’ve made a big difference to many athletes on CC, and there will be a new crop of confused and talented fencers showing up here over the next few months. </p>
<p>Don’t let this recent experience take away your connection to a group of kids who needs you.</p>
<p>…and here I was looking forward to using sherpa as a resource several YEARS from now. Let it roll off your back. The rest of us actually do find your advice useful and helpful.</p>
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<p>You can disable that feature by going to My Control Panel. Just trying to be helpful.</p>
<p>^ Now THAT’S helpful. Thank You.</p>
<p>My homies got my back. Thanks.</p>
<p>Maybe we can make this a “teachable moment”. OP, no hard feelings, to a point. I’m just a little sensitive to getting ■■■■■■■ because a week or two ago I went through a 15 or 20 part private message exchange with a “fencer” seeking advice who, it turned out, wasn’t the “B” he claimed to be, but was actually trying to earn his first rating. I was suggesting tournaments, colleges, approaches, etc. for him and then figured out he was pulling me into his bs fantasy world.</p>
<p>When I saw your thread, I didn’t think to question your sincerity, so I was mentally scripting advice and answers tailored to your circumstances.</p>
<p>Then the lightbulb went on. I remembered your screen name and recalled the gpa help I’d given you before. You’re welcome for that, by the way. So then it took me about five minutes to figure your story out.</p>
<p>I busted you, you came clean. No problem. But go back and reread what you’ve posted after that. You can do better.</p>
<p>Fellow parents, I should cut back on my CC usage, but I won’t lie. I enjoy doing this, whether it’s about fencing, recruiting in general, admissions in general, or my kids’ schools.</p>
<p>I wasn’t going away earlier today, and I’m not going away now.</p>
<p>Sorry. Too many words.</p>
<p>Shorter version:</p>
<p>parents - thanks
danishpastry - grow up</p>