Unofficial visits over the summer

Ohiodad51
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:27:20 +0000

This is stressful, but I can’t imagine how it will be in a couple years with his unhooked sister. It’s actually kind is sad to sit in the info sessions and look around knowing that most of these kids won’t ever have the opportunity to attend, even if they act their SAT’s

I just finished this process. Athlete son now a rising junior, non athlete daughter now a rising freshman. You are right in one sense. I found it very frustrating that my daughter had no real way to gauge which schools might be interested in her and which were not. Much clearer process with my son. That was the biggest thing to me. Another huge factor was it would have been great if my daughter could have spent even half the time talking to students with her interests that my son was afforded at the various schools recruiting him. The visits were nice, but in reality they were also much more important to the athlete because of the nature of being an athlete. He spends way more time in the weight room/locker room/meeting rooms/practice fields than a normal student would spend in any one place. Similarly, not sure my daughter cares too much what the hours are for meals or whether they cater in food when there are late meetings, etc.

Your daughter will have some advantages as well. She can apply to a wider variety of schools for one. No striking Penn State or Okla State off the list because it is maybe out of her athletic league, or pulling Lehigh because they have two 125s already rostered. Another point to remember is that no matter the admissions rate at a given school, the admissions rate for an athlete is in reality far lower, when you consider the athletic bar that you have to clear in the first instance along with the academics.

I think this is a long winded way of saying both processes suck, and you will be stressed either way, lol.