Here he comes wrote:
Which schools? The only good school I am aware of is Colorado School of Mines. Grand Valley offered a very small scholarship and the school is not ranked high.
By "not ranked high" did you really mean "won D2 nationals"?
Here he comes wrote:
Which schools? The only good school I am aware of is Colorado School of Mines. Grand Valley offered a very small scholarship and the school is not ranked high.
By "not ranked high" did you really mean "won D2 nationals"?
Academic rank.
Run faster.
If you don't like your options, then get on a track and put down some times.
But if every kid takes that advice, nothing changes.
He is incorrect.
Why did he choose Princeton? If he was fast in high school, he could have received a nice scholarship.
D2 schools, on average, are much worse academically than D1 schools. And there is this a thought here that they pay more for equivalent times but that is not true either.
The bottom line is that scholarship standards are much higher than most Letsrun posters realize because kids are so much faster than they were a few years ago and also because Covid has allowed everyone to stay a 6th year and guys like Olin Hacker, a 7th year. Most of the posters who claim that 4:19 or some other arbitrary number gets you a spot on a top program are completely clueless. You can always find some exceptions but that doesn't mean that others will be given a spot. Those exceptions always have a story. They may have a connection. Or they may have run fast a sophomore and the coach promised a spot to the kid before his junior track season. Or dig deeper and you find out that they finished 7th at their NXR. But most random kids who email a coach or fill out a recruit questionnaire should be prepared to receive no reply.
Marty Smitty wrote:
Why did he choose Princeton? If he was fast in high school, he could have received a nice scholarship.
He ran 1:52/3:51 in high school. Didn't receive much interest. He contacted Princeton and yea they took him on. They haven't been disappointed.
Arehis parents that wealthy? Is he paying $300k?
what about transferring to top academic schools? I ran 9:50 as a junior, and made a huge jump this year (9:10 off of IMO worse training) so I think I can run 8:5x after a few months. I'm training by myself, and going to a decent (low T20) school but would like to graduate from a better one.
Do coaches have the same pull in transfer admissions as in undergrad?
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
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