Early decision and recruiting

clueless46
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:13:21 +0000

My child is trying to decide between Tufts, Wesleyan, Bates and Colby. Bottom line:

scores on ACT are fine for the schools, in midrange (31), GPA is probably a tiny bit low for the schools (3.6) but he has taken lots of honors courses (no APs), GPA has been better every year (3.5 F, 3.6 S, 3.8 junior year

is being looked at by coaches at all these schools pretty closely for his sport but we are not sure which one will pan out ultimately, we might know in the next two weeks

strong and very meaningful international experience directly related to his passions and reasonably strong leadership positions in school. Loves smaller schools were he can have direct relations with professors and wants some social life. is interested in international law/politics for future and has done a lot with that already and his essay reflects it very nicely

What are your thoughts about whether he has a chance at these three schools or will the GPA kill chance of getting in and also in deciding between the schools, probably would be extremely happy at any of them and I tend to agree…Also is it normal in certain DIII sports not to know at all about whether the coaches are fully supportive this close to the ED dates?