One was at a school that is very close to us that doesn’t have engineering. The others were from schools where combining engineering and NCAA sports didn’t seem realistic. He also has gotten interest from a service academy but he isn’t interested in the military.
He didn’t take the PSAT 10. At his school, and many of the schools in our area, the sophomores and certain freshmen take the NMSQT in the fall. He took it as a freshman to have a score to share with coaches.
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I have decided not to share my state or the sport, due to privacy concerns.
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To be clear he has interest but not offers. I think that is normal at this stage? D1 coaches can’t talk to him yet.
But my understanding is that if/when offers come they ask for a response pretty quickly so he needs to have thought things through.
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That’s why I suggested the D2 engineering tech schools, where almost everyone is an engineer (or at least STEM) and therefore almost all the athletes are engineers. At my daughter’s school, Florida Tech, the school works with the athletic department to design schedules that work. For example, all math exams (not quizzes, just the exams) are given on Thursday nights so the teams can leave for the weekend on Friday mornings. The coaches know this so do not schedule games on exam thursday nights. Professors also allow students to take quizzes at 8 am on Friday mornings so that the team can leave if necessary.
Civil engineering program is small, but there are other departments that offer water courses (although you said as of right not he’s not interested in Ocean Engineering). Many students take extensive internships to development their personal interests.
Just an example. I think Colorado School of Mines, or even South Dakota SOM would offer great engineering and sports. Not Arabic, but at least in Colorado he could probably take the courses at other nearby schools (Regis, U of Denver, CU-Boulder, CU Denver/Metro State are all on light rail/bus routes and within 30 min of Golden).
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