Walking-On to A Top College

eterni-tea
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:28:53 +0000

The dream school is a D1 School.

Responses to keylyme

1. My SAT Score was out of 1600, my sections were CR 670, M 680, W 680, so the 2400 score would have been 2030. I only took the SAT once, but I took the ACT twice and got a 33 both times (ironically I scored completely different in the sections when I retook the ACT… If they let you take your best scores I’d have a 35). In the ACT i’m in the 99th percentile while i’m in the 92nd on the SAT… My school curriculum seems to be catered to the ACT over the SAT so it’s not unusual for students at my school to do better on the ACT

2. Schoolwise I take an all ap, all enriched course track in a school that US News gave a ‘silver medal’. The weight comes from the AP classes as enriched classes aren’t weighted at my school. I have a 3.99 unweighted (a B+ in a semester of english… grr)

This one goes to scualum too:
I had been in the coaches radar since my sophomore year and have visited the school along with had private meetings with the coaching staff. When they called they said I was in their top ten recruits, but they would only be endorsing their top 6… I talked to the coach about this and he said I get in on my own, they will take me as a preferred walk-on, but my application will not be endorsed. I think that the fact that they did call on July 1st is what frustrated me the most; it showed they are interested, but what they said showed that they weren’t interested enough!

My sport doesn’t have a strong club system; mostly just recruiting showcases that I do attend, and the Olympic Development Unit (the program that selects teams for the national championship).

I really appreciate you’re honesty in my situation; I think I’ll probably end up at one of the other schools. I loved their teams, the schools just aren’t nearly as competitive as my Dream School academic wise.