<p>Our scholar - athlete filled out some in the fall--and since that time has inital test scores and new PRs. </p>
<p>Worth re-doing those now?</p>
<p>If these are schools your child is actively communicating with by email, just send an email update, but I’d wait until after spring semester grades come out and send all the updates in one neat email, rather than bits and pieces. I found the recruiting questionnaires weren’t always formatted in a way that made sense- too much space for some things, and not enough for others, and they don’t always ask the question you want to answer.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>That makes more snes than having to update these–though one school’s system is kinda cool–and allows the student to go in/add etc–The system is used by multiple schools so if kid completes the profile–it can then be sent to several schools from the site.</p>
<p>fogfog, the clearinghouse model sounds good. I’m just thinking some of those forms don’t allow room for academic/leadership recognition, or other things you may wish to highlight besides better times/performance benchmarks.</p>
<p>S filled out all the individual college forms once and then never touched them again. He sent in updates after every PR (luckily, they came about once a month!) directly to the coaches. He didn’t use a public recruiting site - in that case, I imagine it is worth updating the form. That said, I think it is probably ideal to make the effort to go to each college’s Team site and fill out its proprietary recruiting form.</p>
<p>^ yes our student did fill out each of the schools forms back in the fall…
I just wondered whether with all of the email the coaches get–whether our student should go back to each school and submit updated info…</p>
<p>For example–back in March -one school /coach which our student was emailing with–sent the link and asked our student to do the form–Our student had already done the form back in October…</p>
<p>and another coach seemed to not connect our student (emailing) with a form done in October as well…</p>
<p>So I am thinking it can’t hurt…
That said–some of the coaches/schools are better at this than others. One coach quote a time from an event–which was slower than our student’s PR…but 11 seconds…so I wonder about those emails -if they really get read.</p>
<p>Here’s a little insider info: the coaches often use work-study students to send out thousands of recruiting letters to lists of kids who participate in the sport they coach. The students do not cross-check to see if the coach has already been in touch with any particular athlete, they just do the mass mailing. Don’t read too much in to receiving generic recruiting mail from a school your child has already been in close contact with.</p>
<p>^^ Helpful</p>
<p>Thanks
We did do some forms today–one or two of them- the website said “thanks for the update” so we gather it knew our student had been there…</p>
<p>other sites seemed to see our student as a new athlete…</p>
<p>I think the real question is what kind of response have you received from the coaches at those schools where you sent the initial questionnaires? If the answer is just a thank you note and nothing more, it’s likely that those schools aren’t all that interested. If the coach followed up with a letter, a request for video, transcripts, test scores, etc, that shows a genuine level of interest that may amount to something. If that isn’t happening, I would suggest that you contact a lot more schools.</p>
<p>If you have any other questions, please send me PM since I don’t check in here all that often.</p>
<p>^^ Right
thats all under control.</p>
<p>S, whose sport is soccer, filled out the on-line recruit questionnaires as his first contact with a school’s soccer program and also maintained a profile on recruiting web sites. He also had a soccer profile that he distributed to coaches in advance of soccer college showcases along with his schedule. As things progressed, he would update his web site profiles in case coaches were searching for players based on certain criteria. Seemed to work pretty well.</p>