Do coaches have any pull for Regular Decision applicants? Q on attending recruiting camp also

lz48880
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 03:13:25 +0000

Thanks to all who provided great feedback!

Tomsriver and Dunboyne: D has been playing USTA tournaments for over 7 years, which we all know is an individual sport. Most recently she played a couple of seasons of high school tennis. She loved the team/social aspect of it and the feeling that she helped the team winning. That is why she wants to play college tennis. But I won’t say tennis will trump academics for her. She is a hard worker, just like all athletes, trying to balance tennis and school. She ranked in top 150 at tennisrecruiting before junior year and then suffered a couple of injuries, which pulled her away from playing for over six months. She tried hard to get back to the game, but with additional training required and 5 AP classes, she has not been able to do so. Her ranking is around 250 nationally now.

I’m not sure if this counts as some preparation for college tennis, but last summer we took her to meet with 5 / 6 college coaches. After that, all coaches have emailed her about their interest and they’ve been checking her profile updates at tennisrecruiting. She is planning to email them again this summer to express her interest.

She is very determined to be a doctor, and will apply to the accelerated programs. However, those programs are harder to get in than most of the IVYs. So we are not very hopeful. That is why she will apply to RD to the top LACs. However, given her stats, we are not sure if she can get in and hope tennis will help her a little bit with the admission. I also wanted to clarify on what I meant by “good premed” programs. I referred that to schools with strong all around liberal arts programs and decent med school admission rate. When you say a more rigorous path for med school with good quant skills, do you mean majoring in engineering or math?

As far as the financial situation, we won’t qualify for financial aid. We went through the process with our older child (not an athlete, but admitted to two IVYs with zero FA) so we are not even going to try with her.

Thanks for the suggestion of making a good video! We will work on that in the next two weeks.

As far as next steps go then, she will work on the video and start emailing the coaches who have been sending her emails to express her interest, plus coaches in some other schools. Anything else she should be doing?