Should a student tell a college coach their GPA early on in the process? If the student has a respectable GPA, is it worthwhile, and appropriate, to include it in an email when trying to get the coaches interest for showcases.
Should a student tell a college coach their GPA early on in the process? If the student has a respectable GPA, is it worthwhile, and appropriate, to include it in an email when trying to get the coaches interest for showcases.
Yes, there is no reason not to include your GPA if it is good. Showing you are serious about your academics is important to pretty much every coach out there.
Sluggers, so are you saying a girl (who is not a superstar) ending her freshman year should or should not include her GPA in an email to a coach?Except if your DD is 14YOA, throws 70 MPH and has a killer riseball.
Listing GPA is fine but test scores are what get noticed. The sooner your daughter is able to populate ACT or SAT scores such that schools can get the admission pre-read you'll see a lot more interest.
Yes, you should.Sluggers, so are you saying a girl (who is not a superstar) ending her freshman year should or should not include her GPA in an email to a coach?
Recruiting is weird enough... Trying to figure out College admissions is WAY, WAY weirder.
While the majority of schools are still looking at ACT/SAT scores as a major part of their entrance requirements, this is slowly changing as well as schools have realized that like everything else they use to try to separate students for enrollment, people have found loopholes or now 'everyone does it' (see community/service hours) so it no longer is something they can grab onto.
Quite a few of the schools DD visited are now test-optional because ACT/SAT's have become heavily weighted towards those with resources to help get their kids better scores. These schools are generally trying to use a HS profile/Classes Taken/Grades obtained assessment to produce a fairer result, but frankly it seems to be more of a weird art than science.
SAT is going to try to add in a 'Adversity Score' adjustment - that is going to be hugely controversial, inadequate and not going to help one bit. As presented, I can see 10 way to game this already.