<p>Thanks for all the advice.</p>
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<p>WashU sounds like the best choice, but it might be easier for you to get into NU as a recruited athlete. Definitely apply to both and go to NU only if WashU turns you down.</p>
<p>nooob: Claremont McKenna would certainly give Northwestern a run for the title of “best school,” and depending on how well-educated your audience is, might even win handily. WashU and Emory are no academic weaklings, either.</p>
<p>I suggest going to the school that you like best, regardless of the wrestling team. If you go to a school just because it has a wrestling team without really liking the school’s atmosphere otherwise, you will probably feel miserable there. Unless you plan on continuing wrestling as a career of some sort–teaching gym, maybe?–go for the college you feel that will give you the best education. After all, college is for learning.</p>
<p>You can always go the route of applying and see who gives you the best financial aid, too…</p>
<p>Well I didn’t want to say this, but the coach told me I am in as soon as I turn in my application. I am applying to Washu, Emory, Kenyon, Macalaster, Carleton, Georgetown, and Claremont McKenna RD. So I still have a good amount of time to make a decision.</p>
<p>From the responses I am getting I think I should rule out Option C.</p>
<p>It’s important at the most basic level to like the colleges you apply to, apart from whatever athletic options you have, or think you have. Surely if you are such a strong wrestler that you’re convinced you have all of these options, you’ve been wrestling long enough to have met more than a handful of kids who sustained season- or career-ending injuries? Choose a college where you’d be happy whether you end up wrestling or not.</p>
<p>This is true. Honestly I did not think about my career ending. I just wish there were more D1 schools that I liked. I hated UPenn, Cornell, Wisconsin, and Missouri. Michigan and Illinois were alright it’s just that they are so big.</p>
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<p>Does anybody else have any advice to offer?</p>
<p>In one of the other posts you said you wished there were more D1 schools you liked; how many did you look at? What do you look for in a school? If you still have time, maybe try to find one more D1 school to apply to, and visit if you get accepted. Just to have another choice.</p>
<p>I looked at</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania - next choice besides Northwestern, was turned off when I talked to a professor and he said Ivy Leauge education was way over rated and that I should go some where else</p>
<p>Cornell University - too big, turned off by the coaches by there, pressure cooker</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin - way way too big</p>
<p>University of Missouri - it was my dream as a kid to wrestle there but I never realized how bad they were academically until I was in high school, too big</p>
<p>University of Michigan - pretty good, once again though it is so big</p>
<p>University of Illinois - I really liked the coaching staff at Illinois and I liked one of the poly sci profs who spoke to a group of us (retrospective students), really really big though</p>
<p>^ penn is a lot of fun, though. why rule it out over one comment from a disgruntled prof? you should talk to their wrestling coach. also, it arguably has the best academics of any school you’ve looked at.</p>
<p>I have talked to all the coaches and have practiced at all the schools. Maybe I should apply to Penn as well.</p>
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<p>What weight class do you wrestle? (Just out of curiosity)</p>
<p>Country Day: Think of it this way. Suppose you choose a school specifically for the ability to wrestle at the D-1 Level and, God forbid, you were injured and could no longer continue the sport. What then? My point is to definitely pick a school because you like it for many reasons in addition to (or perhaps other than??) wrestling. It could save you from a transfer after freshman year should wrestling not work out.</p>