<p>Okay heres what happened. This might be the same old cliche story by all the other loser/lazy/desprete high school students out there. My Overall GPA is 3.03. That is extemely terrible. Despite the college I want to go to ever since i I knew about colleges has an average of 3.75 for all the students who go there. Yeah so my amazing 3.03 is going to get me no where. Lets just say Im a lazy guy with a big dream. Also for your information the College in UW Madison(Wisconsin). Butttt here is the thing, Im a talented track and field athlete, I got the genes I can go big. The are of expertise for Track would be Long Jump. By next year my goal is to get 23ft. Yes I am good. I havent been able to to excell last year because of an injury but now im fully recovered and even better. Im currantly a junior and with enough training I could seem my self hitting 23's next year. So say I did get 23ft. I emailed there coach and he said for a 23ft jump it would get there attention, a 24ft a parcial scholarship and a 24'9 for a full. Couple years ago there was a student that had 22"8 his junior year and he was accepted into UW Madison. But anyway I get this 23ft jump my junior year and the college is intrested. Would they look away just because if my 3.03 grade point average. Im saying I have a pretty low GPA but being good in the Track and Field will get me admitted anyway? Does that happen? I would love to run college track or in other words jump. Anndd sorry for the long post haha.</p>
<p>well, seems like right now 23 ft is probably a hard mark to reach, but honestly most recruited athletes are already well known around their freshman/ sophomore years in high school… it’s gonna be tough for you to get recruited because you haven’t performed too well in the past due to injuries and what not, but don’t dream, just go out and do it. train hard and if you can actually get to your goal or better, your 3.00 whatever won’t really matter because recruited athletes are pretty much the ultimate exception to everything. and you might want to fix up some of your grammar in your writing; your essays will also have a sizable impact on your admissions to colleges.</p>
<p>Yes, it would. some schools have minimum stats for athletes such as the ivies, but I’ve never heard of a state school that does.</p>
<p>I can hit 23ft,coaches think I can and most importantly I think I can. However I dont see how Recruiting for Track would be hard compared to other sports including Team Sports. If you have the numbers and the evidence thats all you need right? Just send it to the coach? I might be wrong, however its great to hear the GPA has nothing to do with it. Also how do you know jumping 23ft would be a hard mark to get? Are you a Long Jumper or Track athlete? And I must say I have to prepare for the worst. If you have any knowlege on Track how lenient would colleges be on jump marks?</p>
<p>oh and btw trust me I am doing, I am training everyday and working hard/ Im pretty sure Ill reach my goal if not better.</p>
<p>hey track, take a look at this page: [Men’s</a> Track Recruiting Guidelines](<a href=“http://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting-tools/College-Track-Recruiting/mens-track-recruiting-guidelines]Men’s”>Men’s College Track and Field Scholarship Standards | Recruiting Times)</p>
<p>looks like 23 feet is a very good distance, so it probably is a very difficult mark to get as it can be enough for a walk-on athlete.</p>
<p>Track, what you do need to understand is that coaches can only pull in a certain number for their team, so you need to be a top pick on the coach’s list.</p>
<p>Okay i have a few question about the website you gave a link to. First of all the school I want to attend is Tier 1. And second what does it mean to be a Walk On? Does that mean you have to get accepted into the college normally and then try out for the team and make it? Or does that mean you get into the college but with no type of scholarship? And being recruited means to get some sort of scholarship am I correct?</p>
<p>You’re right about “Walk on” meaning getting accepted on your own and then trying out for the team.</p>
<p>Recruited means the coach is supporting your application to help you get accepted, possibly with a scholarship and possibly not.</p>
<p>So i could get recruited with no scholarship? Why in the world would a coach not want that? If I can get the walk on mark by junior year I dont see why a coach would not be intrested. The walk on mark is 23ft, and recruited is 24’6. You really need to get 24’6 to get recruited? A kid got 22’8 his junior year and got a call from a couple coaches. That would be considered recruiting as well? And also to what point could the coach extend the limitations for an application to get accepted?</p>
<p>track0145, slow down for a minute. I haven’t looked at the link to the recruiting guidelines and I don’t know a thing about recruiting or scholarships at UW Madison, but I do know quite a lot about athletic recruiting. My S is a varsity athlete at an Ivy League school. Ivies don’t offer athletic scholarships, so understand that I’m coming from a different perspective.</p>
<p>Perhaps you don’t know, but there’s an active subforum on College Confidential devoted to athletic recruiting, full of helpful posters, mostly parents, where these types of questions are discussed thoroughly. There have been quite a few T&F topics recently, and I’m sure you can get all of your questions answered there.</p>
<p>So come on over to [Athletic</a> Recruits - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/]Athletic”>Athletic Recruits - College Confidential Forums) and ask away.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>