<p>crest … people are being helpful and very nice in responding to you but you are not hearing the message.</p>
<p>Track scholarships go to the very top runners in the country … the best few in each state … and even then the money tends to get split up among many runners. Your current times are no where in the league of a D1 scholarship runner (or even a D1 walk-on runner if they have any cuts). If up to this point you have run any mileage at all to get to your times then it wold be a miracle if you improve enough to get to scholarship level. </p>
<p>I was going to add that if you have not been running many miles at all that maybe with solid training you might make an amazing breakthrough … but I doubt that is likely also. I ran a 5:01 mile as a freshmen on a junior high team running about 5 miles a week training … then in HS got serious and got to 4:29 as a junior and got hurt as a senior but probably would have run about 4:24 if I had not got hurt … and I got some sniffs to be a D1 recruited walk-on (a few coaches said we’d like to have me if I got admitted on my own). You are a couple grades older than I was when I ran 5:01 with virtually no training and I did not have D1 level talent.</p>
<p>Running in college might be possible at a D3 school but even that is probably a stretch … please focus on academics and finding a school that works for you … and if the running thing works out that’s great but please stop focusing on it being some sort of admissions strategy because it is not happening. </p>
<p>I apologize for being so harsh but you need to start working on realistic college plans. (Heck I wanted to play in the NBA and wasn’t even good enough to play for my high school … for me that was my time to move on from that dream)</p>