<p>One other thing to keep in mind is there are significant different levels of D1 sports. Sometimes a D1 program can be less competitve than a DIII program.</p>
<p>Threesdad - Interesting that you say your D’s friend will be swimming in fall of 2015 for an ACC school - swimming is one of the sports that doesn’t really do early commitments and at this point the recruiting is just getting started for kids in the class of 2015. Of course swimming is a very cut and dry recruiting situation - swimmers are nationally ranked and it very easy to know if you are “better” than someone else simply by looking at a database of times. There are a few other things that come into play (size and # of years training) but typically “a time is a time”. So if D’s friend is ranked in the top 25 in the country - they typically can have their choice.
Although girls swimming has more scholarships than mens swimming - until they have their full commitments from the class of 2014 they won’t know what they have for next year.</p>