High school football Player

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello! I am a rising senior and still very unsure of my collegiate future. I have been starting on the varsity football team since I was a sophomore. In my junior year I received heavy contact from almost all Ivys. I visited several in junior spring and attended camp at Yale Upenn Dartmouth and Brown. Brown and Dartmouth were very impressed however I have not heard anything from them since. </p>

<p>As a higher recruited student athlete I have as follows</p>

<p>4.0 UW GPA
4.75 W GPA
25 ACT</p>

<p>I plan to retake it again and I am aiming for a 30.</p>

<p>I have now almost given up on football and need to start looking at schools. </p>

<p>I plan to study Chemical Engineering or Environmental E.</p>

<p>Any help with schools?
Or how I should handle this situation? </p>

<p>ANY HELP IS VERY APPRECIATED </p>

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<p>Talk to your coach to see if he has had any ivies interested in you, but it sounds like the interest has tailed off. Still, you have the best grades and if your ACT comes up to 30 (a big if) then you should be able to get merit money at some lower-tier schools. </p>

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<p>Hi I don’t think the ivies go that low for an ACT… unless maybe you’re going to be a star quarterback. I think they want your ACT to be at least a 28-30.</p>

<p>How much will your family spend on college</p>

<p>Once we know your budget and your new scores it will be easier to make recommendations</p>

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<p>Well, at 1-5, you’d think Penn could use some new players.</p>

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<p>They need to be impressed with your grades and test scores as well as your football playing ability. If you can get in the 27-28 range, you may get more interest, and the elite LACs would be interested too. A 25 is just too low for Ivies and upper LACs - though Stanford is known to take players in that range, but that’s a much higher level of football.</p>

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<p>Thank you for all the help! I am aiming for that score. </p>

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<p>Mom2collegekids- currently I live with my sister and we live under the poverty line. So financial aid should cover everything. On practice tests I average 32 in M and S, 27,28 in E and R
Average practice composite is a 30 and I will be taking it December </p>

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<p>You misunderstand. FA doesn’t cover everything. It doesn’t even cover most things at most schools. Most schools have little aid to give. It doesn’t matter if you’re dirt poor and have a 0 EFC…most schools don’t have much to give.</p>

<p>@Freakfisher3‌ </p>

<p>What state are you in? Does your sister have legal (court ordered) custody or is she just taking care of you in an informal way?</p>

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<p>I am in Florida </p>

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<p>What do you mean by saying that you’re a “rising senior”? Are you already a senior?</p>

<p>Anyway, ok…you’re in Florida. Do you qualify for Bright Futures? </p>

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<p>Just to give you an idea of how most schools will not cover everything, here are the results from FSU for a low income Florida student:</p>

<p>A. Your estimated Total Cost of Attendance without Grant Aid $21,440.00
B. Your estimated Net Cost after Grant Aid $15,712.00
C. Your estimated Net Cost after Grant Aid, Student Loans, and Other Aid $6,848.00</p>

<p>A. Cost of Attendance Breakdowns for this Institution
Estimated annual tuition and fees $6,404.00
Estimated room and board $9,912.00
Estimated books and supplies $1,000.00
Estimated other expenses (transportation, personal, etc) $4,124.00</p>

<p>Your Estimated Total Cost of Attendance Without Grant Aid $21,440.00</p>

<p>B. More Information on Grant Aid
Tip: This net cost estimate is your approximate cost after grant aid. Grant aid is money that does not have to be paid back. Estimates of grant aid include federal aid programs and may include other need or merit aid.
Estimated Grant Aid (typical range $5,730.00 to $11,169.00) $5,728.00</p>

<p>Your Estimated Net Cost after Grant Aid $15,712.00</p>

<p>C. More Information on Student Loans and Other Aid
Tip: This cost estimate is your approximate cost after grant aid, subsidized student loans and/or any other other aid. The money from any loans must be paid back when you leave the institution
Estimated Subsidized Student Loans (typical range $0.00 to $5,500.00) $5,500.00
Estimated Other Aid: $3,400.00</p>

<p>Your estimated Net Cost after Grant Aid, Student Loans, and Other Aid $6,848.00</p>

<p>So, even with a 0 EFC (which is the lowest/poorest), an FSU student would be expected to pay nearly $7000 after aid and student loans.</p>

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<p>I am a senior now. I do qualify </p>

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<p>A higher ACT or SAT score to go with your 4.0 GPA will open up more merit scholarship possibilities. For example, <a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/&lt;/a&gt; indicates that if you get a 27 ACT or 1800 SAT, you will get a full ride as a Florida resident to Florida A&M. Your current 25 ACT will get you full tuition plus at Prairie View A&M, but that leaves a $9,526 residual cost, which is a stretch budget to self-fund ($5,500 federal direct loan plus some work earnings, though if you get a Pell grant up to $5,550, that can help considerably).</p>

<p>You may want to try a practice SAT and sign up for a real one if there is any indication that you will do better than 1160 SAT CR+M or 1730 SAT CR+M+W, to give you another chance at a better score.</p>

<p>You may also want to look at <a href=“Competitive Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - #50 by BobWallace - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>Competitive Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - #50 by BobWallace - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums; for competitive full ride merit scholarships.</p>

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<p>What about the other Florida schools that have football teams like UCF, FAU or FIU? Any interest from those schools?</p>

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<p>If you’re a senior now, you need to be getting offers and interest now. If they’re not talking to you, contact them immediately, but I have a bad feeling they’re not interested at this point. It’s getting really late in the game at this point.</p>

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<p>FAU has neither chemical nor environmental engineering.</p>

<p>For chemical engineering, the Florida public schools are FAMU, FSU, UF, USF. For environmental engineering, the Florida public schools are FGCU, FIU, UCF, UF. Note that only UF has both.</p>

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<p>This student has little/no means to cover any gaps because his parents aren’t in the picture. He needs to talk to his coach about how he can get some interest at other colleges…like the ones that ucbalumus mentioned. He needs a full ride. </p>

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<p>Ask in the Athletic Recruits forum. <a href=“Athletic Recruits - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>With that ACT score, forget Ivyies Talk to your coach about likely schools for you and fast.</p>

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<p>How about Florida Institute of Technology? Brand new football team, probably offering scholarships. They offer ChemE, EnvironmentalE, and I know 2 colleagues who dual majored in both.</p>

<p>top tier National University by U.S. News & World Report+listed as the second-highest ranked private National University in Florida, behind only the University of Miami.
Annually recognized as one of America’s “Top Colleges” by Forbes.
The Princeton Review recommended as a “Best in the Southeast” university.</p>

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<p>The son of a good friend went through a similar situation last year. He was a varsity football player in high school who aimed for an Ivy or two and a few other elite colleges. Observing his experience, I was surprised at how recruiting varsity athletes works differently these days. He was unsuccessful in his Ivy quest (despite being a legacy), but was nevertheless admitted to one of the top engineering schools and is on his university’s football team this season.</p>

<p>Have you submitted your name to one of the recruiting services that many college coaches utilize? If not, see if your high school coach can help you out with that. As I saw with my friend’s son, you submit a biography (and video), and then your profile is available for any coach to view online, from D1 to D3. Our player received constant emails last year during and after the football season from places like Rose-Hulman Institute, College of Wooser, Cornell, WPI, RPI, Lewis & Clark College, Oberlin, Washington University, Case Western Reserve University, among others. Ask your coach.</p>