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3200?! Get back to me when you work your tired ass up to a full deuce, muthafukca.

what you're asking for isn't likely. either be willing to pay more for college, or lower that 3200 PR. faster time = more money. most D1s, even the lower ones, won't give significant merit for 9:40

I'm not suggesting that Ill get money for what im doing on the track. The money would come through academic scholarships. Im just looking for a place where i can run too.

UCSD? DII and good academics...

UCSD looks awesome! But i am an east coaster...

justryintogettocollegeman wrote:

If thats false and DIII schools do offer significant merit (im talking they better be able to get me down to 10 grand a year) than correct me

Maybe you should aim lower than Ivies and top tier D3s...try a place like Binghamton. Considered good academically, with a decent program, and a state school to boot. It has all of what you need, plus, you probably won't be able to handle to academic rigor of a MIT, Tufts, or Harvard.

You're welcome.

Honestly, maybe consider a school liie UM,, BU, Syracuse, or Pitt. Not amazing distance wise (although the latter two have really been improving in recent years). All three are very strong academically too, and have reputations for being generous with merit-based aid, especially UM, which has made HUGE strides academically, although they are consistenly awful distance-wise as far as I know.

King Ghidora wrote:

Honestly, maybe consider a school liie UM,, BU, Syracuse, or Pitt. Not amazing distance wise (although the latter two have really been improving in recent years). All three are very strong academically too, and have reputations for being generous with merit-based aid, especially UM, which has made HUGE strides academically, although they are consistenly awful distance-wise as far as I know.

Also by UM I mean University of Miami, not Michigan. Also, I noticed you are on the east coast so that my be a plus. I am not a UM spokespoerson FYI. I just think it would have been fun to run/go to school there.

Apply to many schools. You never know what aid will look like until you go through the process.

Your running puts you on track to be a decent D3 runner, or maybe a D1 runner who is just struggling to keep up. I'd give up on D1 unless you think that 9:40 is going to improve a lot this year.

I'd suggest you apply to some of the strong academic D3 schools that have a good running program and then some state schools that don't cost so much. SUNY Geneseo might be a good fit -- strong academically for a SUNY school and a pretty good running program.

Look at the results of D3 XC nationals over the last couple of years and narrow your list from there.

I hear Bucknell is pretty generous to athletes. It's competitive academically and is Div. 1 without being top of the heap. Supposedly Lehigh gives nice money too. Haverford is a top notch institution with a decent team. The downside is that it's very small. Don't know about money. Amherst is very generous with financial aid.

How about Univ. of Richmond?

penn state

Columbus State University in Georgia. We look forward to you visiting.

Binghamton is a great school for business. Buffalo is another good SUNY and they give a lot of academic money. Pitt is a great school almost all around and they too give a decent amount of money. You could definitely run at Pitt, I'm not sure of the other two with that 9:40

Faber College

My son, last year, was out of a I.B. program. 4.0 all four years, 2310 SAT. Took classes like Calc. based Physics his senior year at local U. He was still only 10th out of 101 in that I.B. program. All of them applied to the big Ivys all of them got shot down. Many with higher SATS meant nothing. All of them fought like hell to NOT have to check that one box...CAUCASIAN. Guess who in their H.S. did get into Harvard...MIT and Princeton. Take a guess. Guess what their grades and ...well ACT's were. Don't tell me I'm wrong cause I was involved with all kids thru the whole year. Asians got screwed royally also. Very sad. Sat of 2370..top 5 in world academic comps...meant nothing..that box is the key.

Try Southern Conference schools such as Davidson and Furman. They are pricey, but have decent running for a guy of your ability.

Lots of academic aid.

what are your scores dawg, i ran a 9:19 and i have got looks from williams and bowdoin, but my grades dont match up to a 35

Duke University isa very strong school, with mediocre running, perhaps you could walk on. Other schools you could walk on include,

Brown, any DIII schools,