<p>eoliver, I can’t wait to hear you choice</p>
<p>if you don’t mind could you start a thread on the athletics recruits forum telling us about the different phases you went through and maybe some advice for future athletic recruits. any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Also is the 400 your best event?</p>
<p>also just out curiosity what is your best time, i am curious what it takes to run at schools like these, congrats though!</p>
<p>i ran a 47.3 10.7 and 21.6 all f.a.t. but theirs a common misconception about times needed to run, i know guys with times alot slower who gt into some of these schools, and guys with times faster who can’t get in to the schools, the x-factor is your grades and your throughness and attracting recruits. if you have good grades but ok times you’ll get into alot of schools like stanford, harvard, etc. bc the coach would want a player with great grades on the team to raise the overall team gpa, however you might not get alot of scholarship money but they’ll definitely help you get in the school. but if you tell which plae to put the thread ill definitely do that</p>
<p>Hey eoliver can you…</p>
<p>Go to the College Admissions forums page.
At the top there are some sub-forums.
Under the Specialty College Admissions Topics there is a section called “Athletic Recruits”</p>
<p>If you could just post a thread about your recruiting experience from begining to now that would be awesome. People have a lot of questions on that forum that you could probably answer really well. I’m mostly interested in how the official visits were handeled but I would like to ask you (and probably many more people) more questions on that thread if possible. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>ps: I hope you can find that section of the site. Idk if i really explained it very well.</p>
<p>eoliver:</p>
<p>I recommend trying to connect with the athletes on facebook or some other network so you can get to know the programs better without the filter of the “official visits”. Or, maybe, google some relevant topics about the schools, that can often lead to blogs or posts about the school you might have otherwise not known. But the real problem I see is, basically, you really came down to four schools that are all completely different.</p>
<p>Even though UCLA, UVA and UMich are state schools, each one is completely different in terms of atmosphere, weather, and in some respects - people. For example, at UCLA and UVA, you’re going to run into a majority of people who are from those states, because Michigan has a high OOS enrollment (around 40%) you’re going to meet a lot of people from outside the state of Michigan (an oddity for a state school). UPenn is a private, ivy league in the middle of Philly, with a considerably smaller population than all three state schools. </p>
<p>The thing is, I have friends at UVA, UCLA, and UPenn (I go to Michigan) and they all love their schools. Each school has a unique aspect to it, environment, and group of people that may not be apparent from the official visits you’ve had. Although, it seems that the fact you listed the cold in Michigan as a negative factor leads me to believe you should really consider just how f****** cold it gets in the mother mitten. </p>
<p>One thing though, you should really still look into Stanford. I have a few friends there and know, for a fact, that if you do come from a relatively humble background, they offer a truly stupendous amount of financial aid (in the form of grants and scholarships) to help finance an education there. I’d email the Office of Financial Aid, if you haven’t already to talk to them about that. </p>
<p>Good luck with your decision.</p>
<p>kim, Penn has 20,000 students, making it as large as UVa and not “considerably” smaller than Michigan and UCLA. </p>
<p>Furthermore, UVa, like Michigan, has a large portion (30%) of undergrads from OOS. </p>
<p>Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your post.</p>
<p>alright mirrorimage im doing it now. and thanks alot kim but, I kinda moved past Stanford, being form the Bay Area originally I dont really want to go back.</p>
<p>^ so what school did you choose?</p>