<p>That’s a good idea, do you understand the rules and positions already?</p>
<p>@playpus I know the basics but I got time to learn the rest lol</p>
<p>alright, good luck! I hope you find something beneficial out of the ordeal</p>
<p>Thanks @playpus </p>
<p>I’m always impressed by how much more ridiculous these chance me threads get every year. Joining a sport you don’t even care about to impress a bunch of schools? To get an essay topic? Are you kidding me? </p>
<p>Your UW GPA is way too low for an unhooked applicant, sorry. As a ORM with mediocre extracurriculars and grades, joining varsity football your senior year (the season’s almost over anyway) isn’t going to help at all. And I don’t see how your essays can be so-called fantastic if you’re willing to pull off absurd stunts like this for writing fodder. I don’t know where you’re from geographically, but to put in it perspective you’re a match for the lower UC’s–probably UCSB or UCI. </p>
<p>Good luck! </p>
<p>@Coriander23 I have other things going for me besides my unweighted GPA, like my 2400 SAT score, awards, and extracurriculars. In case you’re unaware, GPA isn’t the only thing colleges look at…</p>
<p>A 2400 isn’t going to get you into Berkeley, lol. I went to a top 100 HS and 2300+ students were a dime a dozen (myself included) and most of them had 4.0’s to boot. Unfortunately, there were a lot of high-scoring-but-otherwise-ordinary students like you who set their sights way too high and were disappointed in March and April. From what I saw on your chance me thread, you don’t have a lot going for you in terms of awards and extracurriculars either. Extracurricular-wise, a smattering of FBLA awards aren’t going to tip you over, and neither will NMSF. </p>
<p>And SAT’s aren’t the only thing colleges look at either 
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<p>Edit: Oops, this thread is about football. If you’re going to apply to all these reaches, at least hold off on the suspense and let us know whether you’ll be smearing eye black on your face come next season. Good luck!</p>
<p>Honestly, the whole “I’m gonna show the world I’m as good as the boys by trying out for football” thing reads like a bad 1980’s after school special. If you really want to play football, go for it but don’t do it because you think you’ll be a novelty. The kicker on our town’s HS varsity team is a girl, but she’s really good and beat out the competition for her position. </p>
<p>The coach and other players will get annoyed if you waste their time by coming to pre-seasons unprepared so if you really want to play ask some players from the current team to help you learn the game and what it would be like to play. Be prepared to be hurt-a lot. As a dramatically undersized player you’ll get your cage rattled more quickly than most players on the field. Your own team may take it easy on you but the opposition won’t.</p>
<p>If you want a sport that will help you with admission to an Ivy League school try rowing. You’re the perfect size for a coxswain.</p>
<p>@kittycatyeah, I can’t tell if you’re toying with us or serious. If you really think you are going to waltz onto the football team just to hang out with the guys and pad your resume with a fake activity, I’m kind of appalled. It speaks to your lack of character and lack of genuine engagement generally. </p>
<p>And because of that, no, it’s not going to help your admissions chances. If you actually make it onto the team–and from what I’m reading, that’s highly unlikely–your teammates will be annoyed that they work as hard as they do to be successful and you are taking up a spot and using them to put yourself ahead. You may think oh, these are my friends, but if they are serious about playing football, you’ll be imposing on that friendship and ultimately straining it.</p>
<p>If this is a joke and not meant to be taken seriously, my apologies. I’m a parent trying to find a genuine fit (not the generic “Ivy” school) for my own kid (who DOES have genuine engagement, and grades, stats, etc.) and I found this too provocative to be funny. </p>
<p>Does your school only have one football squad? If it has a JV team, then - as a senior - you will probably be eligible only for the Varsity team. That’s how it works at most schools. Would a coach want a senior girl who has never played before, and isn’t serious about the sport? If you make the team, and genuinely want to play, then it’s fine. If not, I doubt that one term playing on an inferior high school sports team would cause anyone reading your application to take special notice. </p>
<p>you also have to consider that you only are really considered “varsity” if you’re actually playing with the varsity lineup…it’s not going to be considered a varsity sport. Football is about a lot more than being able to run and throw. It’s a massively strategic game, a game whose strategies take years to learn. I’m the daughter of a high school football coach (also 5’2 and 95 lbs) and I have been working with the team since I was ten. I know more about football, the playbook, and the team than many of the players do. However, even with this, I CANNOT play football. It is, quite frankly, unsafe. We have had girls play kicker before, as well as safety, but they were much larger. It’s not really that much of “challenging a societal norm” if you play just your senior year. I think that you probably have a lot more going for you than one year of a superficial activity. Colleges will see right through it.</p>
<p>@3girls3cats No, I’m completely serious! And I know for sure the football players won’t be annoyed - like I said, I talked to them about it, and they think it’s hilarious! And also, as I mentioned somewhere above, I really do want to join - I think it’ll be an interesting and fun experience. My football friends are very encouraging and say it’s awesome. I really am genuinely interesting in joining, it’s just that I’m more concerned about the benefit for applications (I’ve got my entire application essay planned out)! Don’t worry, kids on the football team in my school aren’t “provoked” by tiny things like you are!</p>
<p>You will fool no one. Don’t you have anything better to do?</p>
<p>Honey, wait until next year when you are a senior and get back to me about how amusing your teammates find you then.</p>
<p>Everyone is giving you the same advice and you don’t seem to want to hear it. </p>
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<p>I don’t follow football much, but my kids (S and D) played travel hockey at a relatively high level. I know many female hockey players who played on boys’ travel teams, or their high school teams, because they wanted to challenge themselves with the checking. Girls teams tend to emphasize skill since there’s no open ice checking, although there’s a fair amount of contact.</p>
<p>I can guarantee that no female hockey player I know would ever say “the hockey players won’t be annoyed… they think it’s hilarious!”</p>
<p>On the off chance that you’re not a five letter word I’m not supposed to say, here’s my opinion: Adcoms are not stupid and your motives are transparent. </p>
<p>@IxnayBob I really don’t think my motives are transparent, esp if I write a great essay about football. And well I guess things run differently where I come from, cuz all the players I talk to love the idea of me in V football and are encouraging me to try out</p>
<p>Look, here’s the truth: You aren’t going to be writing any college essay if you play football. You are going to get a concussion.To avoid the headaches, you will need the lights dimmed and you will only be able to look at a book (not a computer screen) a couple of hours a day. </p>
<p>Why do I think this? I just heard an ER doc talk through the stats on the radio, and the number one group that has concussions of any athlete, any sports are GIRLS in soccer. It is not heading the ball: it is the various impacts with other players. You will be wearing a helmet, but the longterm studies are showing that’s not enough for the men. The thing is, there is only going to be more impact for you in football, not less.</p>
<p>I am hopeful your parents will not sign that permission form to allow you to play.</p>
<p>The OP has solicited advice, and all the responses have indicated that her idea lacks merit for reasons previously mentioned. As entertaining as this thread may be, at this point, we are going around in circles. As a result, I am closing this thread. </p>