<p>This is not a typical CC situation at all. I was asked for advice by some friends trying to help this student.</p>
<p>Briefly, student is a runner, state record times, an orphan, an immigrant, English is second language. Basically works full time, goes to school and trains. As my friend said, these are his times without proper nutrition and no sleep, imagine if he had a better situation.</p>
<p>GPA is high enough for D 2 but standardized test scores are nowhere near high enough. Retaking but we aren't optimistic.</p>
<p>Junior college might be an option, but there are very few track programs.</p>
<p>Another parent is working on the FAFSA angle since student is independent, she is workin on gathering documentation.</p>
<p>Any insight on post-graduate years? He could benefit from another year of high school for a host of reasons.</p>
<p>I do think community college is a great option. He could do this and just run club track, which he does during the off season and summer. Then perhaps he could transfer into a D I or II school. </p>
<p>I am curious about post-graduate year. He managed to get himself into our neighborhood high school which is decent but before that he was in the worst public schools in our system and maybe the state. The adults who know him all agree that he could use some more schooling.</p>
<p>The hardest working kid they have every met, determined and ambitious, but right now scared out of his wits. (And this from a kid who escaped a war torn country less than a decade ago.)</p>
<p>I would go to boarding school review and look at the schools with a PG year. There are some great schools out there that take ESL students. Also, when you say his SAT’s aren’t high enough, I am assuming you have seen the NCAA sliding scale for GPA/SAT? They do allow pretty low scores. I’m not sure what the numbers are for DII, but if you go to the NCAA website and look under eligibility, you can find it.</p>
<p>I agree with Keylyme - make sure that you know for a fact that his scores are not good enough to meet NCAA regulations. They allow some really low scores and there are DI schools that happily recruit really fast kids with low scores, often international kids. Some of the SEC schools that field terrific track programs, have lots of flexibility about who they recruit. It might be worth e-mails to some coaches, giving his times & scores to confirm that you’re right about his scores being too low.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if this is a kid who might benefit from a gap year spent working to save some money, training with a club team, and studying to take the standardized tests and generally improve his English and life skills. It seems like throwing this kid into college as a student athlete might be more than he can handle yet. On the other hand, a school where the teams have a lot of academic support might work well. This is going to be a tricky match.</p>
<p>Can you give us a geographic area, OP? Where you are, and where he’d be willing to go. There are some small schools, not academically selective, with good track programs near me, but need to know if geography is an issue.</p>
<p>check out [Public</a> Home Page - NCAA.org](<a href=“http://www.ncaa.org%5DPublic”>http://www.ncaa.org) to find the clearinghouse and the scores/grades he will need to be eligible …</p>
<p>One last thought … if the idea is a track scholarship might pay his way through school that is not very likely … track and field sqauds are large and teams have few scholarships; most are split among multiple team members … track may be a hook and might provide some financial help but it is unlikely it will pay the way</p>
<p>I picked Calumet St. Josephs (Indiana), a private liberal arts college, out of the list at random and looked up their admissions process. They require a high school transcript and ask for SAT scores, but they emphasize SAT scores are NOT required for admission–they are used for scholarship consideration.</p>
<p>He would need to take the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) and meet the score the college requires to demonstrate English proficiency:
[TOEFL:</a> Home](<a href=“http://www.ets.org/toefl]TOEFL:”>The TOEFL Tests)</p>