Unofficial visits over the summer

dadof4kids
Thu, 25 May 2017 16:19:43 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I would be lost without this board. I know one kid who went Ivy and no one who went to a high academic D3. And the Ivy kid’s dad said that they did everything wrong and just got extremely lucky that they found a coach very late in the game desperate for an uncommitted kid in his position with a 30 ACT score.

I would have good help if we wanted to go NAIA or D2, or even regular D1, lots of people in his school with that experience. But hardly anyone around here is ever shooting to leverage sports into high academics, just scholarship money. My kid can probably get a full tuition scholarship to the state flagship with his ACT score anyway. Why would he take on the commitment of a college sport just to take a smaller scholarship from the athletic dept?

The ironic thing is that after financial aid the Ivy kid’s dad ended up paying about 1/2 of what he would have with a typical partial scholarship that the local D2 gives in that sport. And I bet people talk about what an idiot he was to walk away from a $5,000 scholarship to a $20,000 a year school and went to a high priced Ivy instead.