Great Schools for athlete with high GPA?

twoinanddone
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 01:48:50 +0000

PurpleTitan:

@Houston1021, Div II/III talent wouldn’t be a recruited athlete at a DivI school.

That isn’t true. My daughter was recruited at D1, D2 and D3 schools, both for athletics and academics. Different schools had different strengths for her. At some of the D3 schools, she would have been one of the best athletes. At some of the D1 schools she would have been one of the best athletes. There is a long way between a D1 school ranked in the top 20 and those ranked in the last 20, but they are still both D1.

She decided on D2, received a good athletic scholarships and a good merit scholarship. The team was the right fit too. They went to the NCAA tournament her jr and sr years.

Although her school had good diversity (a lot of international students too), it wasn’t like a big melting pot. She was the only minority on her team (she’s Chinese). Most of the minorities socialized with their own groups or teams. It wasn’t a problem for her but she wasn’t looking for diversity, it just happened to be there.