<p>@GrBoiler thank you</p>
<p>@Bill73 thank you especially - you’ve given me some great information</p>
<p>No problem. </p>
<p>If you have any more questions, let me know.</p>
<p>Here’s a recruiting update. I’ve picked up interest from a lot of other schools for soccer. Based on what I want from school, how would these schools fit me?</p>
<p>Harvard
Boston University
Colorado School of Mines
Carleton
Vassar
UMass-Amherst
College of Charleston
Emory
University of Denver
Grinnell
NYU
Michigan
Western Michigan
Kalamazoo College
Stanford
North Central College
Pitt
Rose-Hulman
Haverford
Gonzaga
St. Louis
Butler
UCSD
Tufts
Mercer
Swarthmore
Brandeis
Colby College
Colgate
Illinois Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
NC State
Pomona</p>
<p>I know that’s a lot of schools, but which ones stand out for my preferences?</p>
<p>Out of that list, Michigan, Stanford, and Pitt stand out to me for having sports/school spirit.</p>
<p>^ Also Butler and NC State ^</p>
<p>How do you have a unweighted GPA of over a 4.0?</p>
<p>@magentaturtle sorry about that… I copied and pasted the template from a different thread and was too lazy to notice/change it to weighted. My school doesn’t report unweighted GPA either. If anyone in the future is curious, I got like 65% A’s and 35% A+'s throughout high school.</p>
<p>@oceanicole @barrk123 thanks guys!</p>
<p>Do you have any suggestions for other possible schools?</p>
<p>I hope my question didn’t come out as rude. I didn’t mean it that way :D</p>
<p>WUSTL and Chicago are in the UAA conference, formerly known as the Nerdy Nine. DIII schools are not allowed to give money.</p>
<p>If you are interested in :
engineering
frats
DI sports</p>
<p>you should consider:
Villanova
Lehigh
Bucknell
Purdue</p>
<p>Many schools that are low level DI schools don’t allow walk ons. If they haven’t signed you up, they don’t want to see you at tryouts.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend playing a sport and majoring in engineering or CS.</p>
<p>My recommendation is to have UIUC as your undergraduate choice and go to Colorado for graduate school, where local companies will hire you.</p>
<p>Please view UIUC as your state gem.</p>
<p>TheValidity, congratulations! That’s phenomenal. I was going to mention looking into the Ivies, because their athletic standards tend to be slightly less competitive since academics are their foremost interest. I see you’ve been contacted by Harvard - perhaps also look into schools like Cornell, Penn, and Dartmouth, which (from friends’ experiences and my own impressions) have fairly lively frat scenes, challenging academics, and D1 athletics, among other things.</p>
<p>I’d pimp Carleton since the men’s coach contacted you, but it’s a small D3 school with no frat scene, so basically doesn’t meet some of the first criteria that you laid out, haha (I’m on the women’s team there). If you have truly received interest from all of those schools, I’d single out schools like Stanford, BU, Michigan and Hopkins (Hopkins is D3 but pretty much meets all of your other requirements, plus program is competitive, so it depends what you’re willing to look for) as meeting all of your requirements. But, to be honest, if you’re good enough to have attracted attention from a top athletic and academic school like Stanford, I don’t see the harm in contacting coaches at schools like UIUC and Colorado-Boulder and sending them your resume, asking about potential walk-on spots. Do you have a soccer resume and/or cover letter for coaches?</p>
<p>To suggest further schools, I’d second the recommendation of Vanderbilt, as well as Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and definitely UVa, maybe UC-Berkeley as well. These are all heavy recruiting schools and their recruit classes will most likely include some of the top-ranked players in the nation, <em>but</em> I see no harm in contacting coaches and asking about walk-on potential. If you’re willing to try a smaller school, then possibly Wake Forest could be added to that list as well. If you want/need any more information about soccer recruiting, contacting coaches and athletic resumes, feel free to PM me or check out the athletic recruiting forum on CC.</p>
<p>To tk - most schools with an athletics program recruit, period. Chicago definitely recruits, as does Swarthmore (Chicago’s women’s program is consistently one of the best women’s D3 programs in the nation).</p>
<p>Hope that helps! Best of luck.</p>
<p>^Ivies don’t give athletic scholarships</p>
<p>Looking at your new list, are you truly considering all of the schools on the list?</p>
<p>For instance, if a less selective school like Western Michigan or UMass offered you a full academic scholarship and would allow you to play soccer there, would you go there?</p>
<p>Duke, Colgate, and Holy Cross</p>
<p>There seem to be a few questions about where I am in the recruiting process with those schools I listed. The way youth soccer works is there are two levels of competitive soccer: Academy(most competitive) and Club(competitive). I’m not able to do academy soccer because it has a 10 month season (basketball commitment) and the closest academy team is a 2 hour drive away for 4 nights of practice per week. I started the recruiting process in early March of this year. I created a highlight video and asked lots of colleges to come see me play at my tournaments.</p>
<p>The top level D1 schools get their recruits from the academy teams. Many of the top-25 ranked soccer programs (like North Carolina, Virginia) had all of their roster spots for my class filled before they even got a chance to see me play. This is why my only chance of playing for schools like those is walking on. This is very possible because coaches reserve 2-3 spots a year for “training players”. These training players have the opportunity to play with the first team every day, and in rare cases, they get a roster spot and even scholarship money in subsequent years.</p>
<p>So I’m receiving varying levels of interest from each of the schools listed. Some of them already saw me play in person; I sent my video and a list of stats/accomplishments to the other coaches on that list. They all told me that I have the talent and academic ability to play on their team. Some schools have told me that I’d be given a roster spot if I chose to matriculate, while others have asked me to attend their summer camp so they can get a better idea of how good of a fit I’d be.</p>
<p>This is one of my main problems right now. There are so many schools on that list that I can’t possibly go to every camp. Most of the camps are anywhere from now to early August. So that’s where I’m at in the recruiting process. Hope it all makes sense! Very stressful, though…</p>
<p>@magentaturtle no worries! it didn’t come off as rude to me</p>
<p>@marymac if I understand the recruiting process correctly, many DIII schools are able to pay for part of your tuition through grants and other forms of scholarships without calling it an “athletic scholarship”. This is especially true at well-endowed schools like WUSTL and Chicago. Correct me if I’m wrong. Also, why isn’t feasible to do soccer and CS/Engineering? Would you recommend considering another major, or dropping soccer completely? I want both :/</p>
<p>@reesezpiecez103 haha my aunt is also wanting me to go to Carleton because her high school sweetheart went there for soccer. Unfortunately, neither UC-Boulder nor UIUC have soccer programs on the mens’ side. Thanks for the great info though!</p>
<p>@Bill73 that’s one of my biggest problems. Before I picked up all of this recruiting interest it seemed much simpler. Now that I have to add soccer to the mix, it’s forcing me to consider every school. Playing college sports is not my dream, but I also understand that it’s an opportunity that very few people get. I need to decide if I should
a) completely forget about being on a varsity soccer team - go to a school for academics and play club soccer *2nd choice
b) go to school with the best soccer program that has offered me, regardless of academic reputation - maybe consider grad school? *blechhh
c) find a good, maybe not perfect, combination of both *preferred at this point</p>
<p>-also, another person brought this up earlier but apparently deleted their post. She had a good point, though. She noticed that my parents had a very high income and asked if they told me they will pay full price at any school. The answer is kind of. We won’t qualify for any need-based aid, and they set aside 35k a year for me. They have told me that they will pay this much no matter where I go, and that I will be able to pocket whatever I save. For schools that cost more than that, they told me that they would loan me the money I needed interest-free. I would then have to pay off what I owed them without any deadlines. It’s not a perfect situation, but I think it’s very generous because they are not restricting where I want to go and I would be able to pay them back once I’m financially stable.</p>
<p>EDIT: I’d also like to add that the more I read about U of I, the better I like it!</p>
<p>bump !</p>
<p>[Risky</a> Business - U of I - YouTube](<a href=“Risky Business - U of I - YouTube”>Risky Business - U of I - YouTube)</p>
<p>Man, I feel old. :-)</p>