<p>My daughter’s tennis team just won Division I State title. And she is the 2nd single. She’s also appointed to the co-captain position for the next year. And it’s very possible that she’ll be the 1st single next year. But the season starts in March, so it won’t help the application much, I guess.</p>
<p>My D is a rising senior, NHS member.
About 100 hours volunteer works.
Unweighted GPA 3.96, weighted 4.6.
Dartmouth book award recipient.
ACT 35.
SAT Math II, 800.
SAT Bio/M 800.
Took SAT I on June 7th, so don’t know the score, yet.
The school does not rank the students.
A few clubs (President of a club).
Asian American.</p>
<p>I know the GPA and scores alone would not guarrantee you anything. </p>
<p>My question is –
How much can this State title and the co-captain position help her? A lot or just somewhat?</p>
<p>My daughter is aming at Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Darmouth, Duke and Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>If she is willing to play in college, it could help a lot, you just need to get a coach interested. With those stats and depending how good she is, she might get a school to give her an ED admit, particularly if she were willing to consider some of the top LACs as well.</p>
<p>You might search around and look for videos of various teams and see how see compares. Contact coaches as well - now is the time to do that, they will tell you what they need.</p>
<p>It will only help if your daughter is being recruited by her college (s). Sure, being a good tennis player on a great team is noteworthy, but if you’re looking for an admissions boost, she needs to be recruited to play for her college. Many are already committed by their junior year - Ivies and D3 are later. If she is not actively being recruited by now, I’m not sure why. In my daughter’s sport, it depends on the state, too. A state player of the year may not start on an average team in a more competitive state. So, is she good enough to start on any of these tennis teams?
The stats are spectacular so, no hinderance there - just need the tennis “goods.”</p>
<p>In many sports, you need to actively contact the coaches of the school you’re interested in - scouting can be pretty rare in some sports. Friends of ours have a daughter who rows, they had to do all the contacting for D3. She has great academics, but the contacting got her an ED admit. With some schools, particularly ones far from your location, you even need to contact them with your interest even for sports like soccer. Don’t wait for them to come to you, politely inquire anywhere you think you might be interested and have the ability.</p>
<p>What state? Not all tennis states are created equal. She sounds competitive even without the tennis angle. Does she want to be a recruited tennis athlete? If not, she should just mention her tennis accomplishments in her application.</p>
<p>As others have said the particular state does mater since not all states are created equal as far as tennis competitiveness is concerned -especially if she’s looking to be recruited.
If she doesn’t want to play in college then the state title would be another EC; perhaps more impressive than your average EC, but it won’t necessarily give you the boost you might be looking for.
With her stats and ECs your daughter should try applying early to one -or more- of those schools if possible. </p>