@cinnamon9724 helpful data point – thank you for clarifying! My son had considered Skidmore and it came off our list bc, at that time, the max merit award was $10k and we needed more like $25k.
Thanks for the St. Edwards recommendation. We’ve been looking at it online and it looks amazing. Do you have any more insight from your friend’s experience? This one may make the list!
I would be worried about St. Edwards if sports is so important to your daughter. https://www.hilltopviewsonline.com/22254/uncategorized/athletics-department-decides-to-cut-six-varsity-sports-due-to-financial-hardship/
For perspective, Brown recently discontinued 11 varsity sports: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/01/brown-university-cuts-11-varsity-sports.
@Houston1021, Div II/III talent wouldn’t be a recruited athlete at a DivI school.
I’ll throw out Stevens as a potential option. They have some big full-tuition scholarships that are tough to get. The only thing that keeps any DivIII school from salivating over (and throwing money at) her is her SAT score. Can she work on raising that that?
DivII schools offer athletic scholarships:
https://www.ncsasports.org/womens-soccer/division-2-colleges
Has she talked to coaches at Mines in CO, FIT and Rollins in FL, or UAH in AL?
What DivII coaches have recruited her?
Tufts or any Nescac school
^ Most don’t offer merit scholarships.
That isn’t true. My daughter was recruited at D1, D2 and D3 schools, both for athletics and academics. Different schools had different strengths for her. At some of the D3 schools, she would have been one of the best athletes. At some of the D1 schools she would have been one of the best athletes. There is a long way between a D1 school ranked in the top 20 and those ranked in the last 20, but they are still both D1.
She decided on D2, received a good athletic scholarships and a good merit scholarship. The team was the right fit too. They went to the NCAA tournament her jr and sr years.
Although her school had good diversity (a lot of international students too), it wasn’t like a big melting pot. She was the only minority on her team (she’s Chinese). Most of the minorities socialized with their own groups or teams. It wasn’t a problem for her but she wasn’t looking for diversity, it just happened to be there.
1 Like
If your daughter is applying for the next school year, many schools are going test optional or not requiring tests at all. A small D1 like Rice with only 4000 undergrads might be interested in your daughter. It’s worth a look and reaching out to the women’s soccer coach. https://riceowls.com/sports/womens-soccer
NCAA DI/II recruited athletes still have to have a test score, even at TO schools, per NCAA rules. They do have until spring of senior year to provide said test score, but not all schools choose to allow that, especially highly selective ones.
NCAA still could waive the testing requirement for DI/II recruited athletes for class of 2021 (they did for class of 2020), but have not done so yet.
Thanks, again, for your helpful comments. She was steering away from D1 because athletics seemed more like a job and, for her, sports is a stress reliever and she wants to keep it that way, so she was thinking a smaller d2/d3 would be a better fit. She has teammates already committing to D1 and she knows she needs to zero in on the right fit for her. Bummer about st Edwards. Austin might be a good fit for her and they have many majors that seem great to her.
@twoinanddone That sounds sounds like what we are looking for! Can you say where she went?
@Aussie1111 hearing you describe your daughter was like hearing about mine. Similar work ethic, GPA, ECs, biology major and love for the 2 coasts and large diverse cities! She is a Senior now and currently applying. She is a volleyball player. Stevens gave her $33.5K and we are strongly considering that offer. Other D3s we considered for VB were UCSC (no mention of any aid) and Juniata (never got to discuss the aid part because its in a small town). Have you considered UT Dallas and or Chapman in Orange County CA? PS: she only has a Soph year SAT so not as high as we think she is capable of
@Aussie1111 I hope Dickinson College is on your list, sounds like it meets a lot of your criteria. Great LAC with science programs, campus diversity, and robust study abroad programs. My daughter is on a D3 team there and loves it. Applied test optional but had great grades and extracurricular activities and got top merit $$$. Her coach worked with admissions to do an academic pre-read and we got early insight about possibility for merit money. Although it is not a coastal school, it’s located in Carlisle Pa which is a charming small town outside of Harrisburg (2 hours from DC too) with beautiful hiking spots and opportunities to explore nature. I think it would be a great fit for her.
Don’t know if you’re still looking … but Trinity University in San Antonio might be worth investigating even though it’s not coastal (but fits lots of your other criteria!).
Hoping you’re around to let us know where your D went. Your D sounds exactly like mine, down to soccer, gpa, not wanting D1, and bio major. I could have written your posts lol.