No. These comments are ridiculous. There are hundreds of high school kids who run faster who are willing to take a dollar if they could get it. My sons and some of their friends are examples.
No. These comments are ridiculous. There are hundreds of high school kids who run faster who are willing to take a dollar if they could get it. My sons and some of their friends are examples.
Honestly I think you are lucky to be on a full ride to begin with. Unless there’s other factors I don’t know about. 8:25 is good, but not great. Hundreds of American high school runners and internationals run that yearly. From what I can tell, at that level you simply need to be lucky to get the scholarship you’re on. Need to be in the right place at the right time. And you already got lucky once.
My best advice would be to just try to make it work where you’re at. Even after running 8:10 and 14:20 I’m not sure you’d get another offer like what you have.
If you need to leave I’d finish outdoor track then transfer. If you haven’t redshirted yet, possibly after sophomore outdoor track. Then you could put some times down, transfer, redshirt to acclimate to the new program. And have 2 years of eligibility left at the new program.
Can anyone else with more knowledge tell me how fast you have to be to get full ride offers? I’m not sure so my mindset and advice might be skewed. Maybe you could just get another full ride if you run 8:10/14:20, I can’t say. Good luck in whatever you choose though.
Nobody close to full ride on either of my sons' teams. They have guys running as fast as 7:50/13:40. 8:10/14:20 are getting nothing there.
Folks a full ride doesn’t mean he has a full ride track scholarship.
Surprised so many folks on this thread are assuming that to be the case.
re "full ride doesn't mean a full ride," sorry, bs.
one, he's said he's international, so he's not getting financial aid.
second, at best he'd be combining merit and sports money, but again, most would describe that as like "i am there on half and half, academic and athletic scholarships." no one i knew would have called that a full. a full implies either side fully funded you.
third, all due respect but it's a LR cliche that about once a month someone is on here from abroad asking what it takes for a full. they are not interested in d3s or ivies because they want school paid for. if they had the sort of high end academics that gets you academic money, they'd be more concerned on quality of school choice than on can i get a free education running for East West Directional State in d2. if school costs them money they'd just as well be in their home country at Manchester Metropolitan or the Open University or somesuch.
so, given the freely admitted "context," he's hunting a sports full. if he was smart enough to get a half or 3/4 ride on academics alone, this would be more nuanced on desired landing zones, and he'd frame it as i likely need about a 1/4 ride or so -- because that's easier to get. he wants a full. so i am assuming average academics or disinterested in quality, or unwilling to pay.