Heading out for our first round of visits

mayhew
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:12:51 +0000

Interesting that coaches are really meant to ask about other colleges being considered, etc. - although they must of course know that if you are interested in their school for sports, you would be similarly interested in their peer institutions…At this point in the “game”, our students, as juniors, are often talking to several different colleges. Indeed, they may have strong feelings towards certain schools at this point, but one has to be fluid at this time.

Regarding other colleges, my athlete went ahead and “let go” of about 8 schools as the emailing with everyone was getting to be too much - way too time consuming. The schools that she wrote with a polite “thanks for the interest, but no thanks” are ones that she would never go to anyway, with or without sports being a component. This seemed like the fair and right thing to do, not only in terms of time management for my daughter, but also in consideration of the other recruits who actually do want to go to these schools - and also in consideration of the time of the coaches at these various schools - no need to waste their time, etc. It has made things much easier I think for my daughter now … only emailing with places she really would want to go to.