D3 High Academic/Ivy Recruiting Timetable

chinamigarden said:

Words of caution, if your dd is locked in on one or two high level academic schools be prepared for the chance she won't be accepted. I don't care what her grades are or if she has a good test score, sometimes the numbers are not in her favor. I suppose if the softball coach is in her corner that will help.

My dd was #1 in her class, her ACT score was a bit lower then we expected but it was a 31. We figured that along with her unweighted 4.0 (most higher end colleges don't use the weighted score) would be enough to get into most any school. Plenty of AP classes and dual enrollment as well. Add in her being a 3 sport varsity athlete, in the band, NHS, student government, yearbook... All the things we are told to get on the student resume she had. But she was applying for engineering school and for University of Michigan that wasn't enough to be accepted into the engineering program. It was a surprise, but she had a secondary school and she is very happy there.

Be prepared, to help your high achieving dd if one or more of these schools say thanks but no thanks.

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Me_and_my_big_mouth said:

Thank you SO much for this! My DD is a STEM girl, too. I'll make sure she reads this thread so she gets some ideas of what's ahead.

At this point, as a young sophomore, she has 39 schools on her lists of potentials. D1, D3, and NAIA. We want her to have lots of choices and lots of research, not just focus on one or two schools.

Basically, we've told her that expecting Ivy is like picking up a guitar and thinking you're gonna be a rockstar. It's hard work, talent, luck, and timing. You can only control 50% of that.

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chinamigarden said:

Words of caution, if your dd is locked in on one or two high level academic schools be prepared for the chance she won't be accepted. I don't care what her grades are or if she has a good test score, sometimes the numbers are not in her favor. I suppose if the softball coach is in her corner that will help.

My dd was #1 in her class, her ACT score was a bit lower then we expected but it was a 31. We figured that along with her unweighted 4.0 (most higher end colleges don't use the weighted score) would be enough to get into most any school. Plenty of AP classes and dual enrollment as well. Add in her being a 3 sport varsity athlete, in the band, NHS, student government, yearbook... All the things we are told to get on the student resume she had. But she was applying for engineering school and for University of Michigan that wasn't enough to be accepted into the engineering program. It was a surprise, but she had a secondary school and she is very happy there.

Be prepared, to help your high achieving dd if one or more of these schools say thanks but no thanks.

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