Walking-On to A Top College

eterni-tea
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:17:50 +0000

Hopefully someone will be able to help me, but bare with me as this is my first post on cc!

With July 1st passing, I started receiving calls from coaches, which was very exciting. The only negative was my top school called to say that they won’t be keeping a spot for me and that i’m free to apply on my own and walk on, but they won’t be giving me support. (I’d name the sport but I don’t want to reveal my identity )

At first I was just not going to have anything to do with the program, I’d received very good offers from two other top twenty schools in my sport, but my top school is just where I want to be. That leaves me to apply on my own, the only catch; they have a less than 10% acceptance rate.

So here’s where my question comes into play: even though I’m not going to have a coach-endorsed application, will the fact that I have excelled in a sport help my application?

I have a 4.2 GPA, ranked 1 out of 500 in a public school, student body president (class president the rest of the years), ACT at 33, SAT 1350 (my test scores are low, but I was hoping the coach would endorse my application and help me!), have over 150 hours of community service, and have lettered in 3 varsity sports. The sport that I’m playing I’m an all-american (my sport only selects 50 all-americans), two time all-state (hopefully 3-time by the time I graduate), and have been selected to play in the national championship (represent my region in the US) for the past two years.

Will the all-american status give me an edge, or is it just going to have the impact of taking up a line on my resume, since everyone that applies to these schools is a top student?

Any help is greatly appreciated!