Anything to increase chances for 7th grade child?

[one1ofeach]

@NEMama

Thanks for the reply. I understand that it’s DA rules that preclude a player from playing HS, but I was responding to where you said earlier that an impact player would be of ECNL caliber. ECNL isn’t an option for us, and DA isn’t of interest, precisely because of the HS issue. I just meant that if being an NPL player means my daughter isn’t considered strong enough for a prep school, then that’s okay too, and she’d probably choose public HS at that point. Playing sports is very important to her. However, it doesn’t sound like that’s necessarily the case (that an NPL player would never be considered “good enough”), so I guess she’ll just see.

Thanks for the insight about the challenges with playing NPL in the spring, running track, and keeping up with studies. Definitely something to consider. She is meticulous with her studies. I suspect she will apply for admission, see if she is indeed admitted, and then make tough choices if offered admission.

As for the community service, our GS troop is definitely not one where parents do the project for their girls, but even so, her other community service has been outside of her silver award project. She really enjoys it, and I’ll encourage her to keep at it.

Thanks for all the helpful insight.

No, DA/NPL is “good enough” and will get the interest of most coaches. There have been several posters saying “I am impact level” and not understanding what that is (which is why I asked). You and your daughter should absolutely contact coaches at the beginning of next year so that when you tour schools you can meet the coaches. If possible go to as many games as you can. The school spirit is quite different at schools and will give you a vibe of the place.

She sounds very much like my kids. They started looking at private schools because they were so annoyed by the way other kids in public treated the whole concept of school.

Playing two sports is doable but it is mind/body breaking. It is just really important to really drill down with the school (after admission ) on things like the school’s requirement for sports and how often your daughter will be allowed to leave campus. Some schools will not excuse a kid more than 2x a week which obviously is a problem for a club player with 3 practices and 2 games every week. Before we were accepted I found this information somewhat hard to find. I didn’t know the lingo of the school and some admissions people were less than helpful (the Andover AO who just told me for 30 min how club soccer was ruining women’s soccer).