If you are willing to go a little further, Emory University appears to have quite a lot of spots available on the team right now. Top 21 research university and excellent weather. Strike while the iron is hot.
If you are willing to go a little further, Emory University appears to have quite a lot of spots available on the team right now. Top 21 research university and excellent weather. Strike while the iron is hot.
shootpost wrote:
HS_HERO wrote:
sammy, you really need to give her desired major. Many D3 schools have 1 or 2 majprs that they excel at and the rest are a joke. For example, if she wants to do mechanical engineering I could bring up RIT or RPI, but if she's looking at teaching those shouldn't be considered. Off the top of my head and can't think of a D3 with a good running program that is a good fit for every major, even well known ones.
This is one of the problems with D3 schools in general. My sister went to a D3 school with a pretty good biology program which was a great fit because she intended to major in biology! After one semester bio was not a good fit and she had to change her major. There were only a few other degrees and almost all of them jokes. Other than bio they had more or less nothing.
At a large D1 state school you not only have many different degree programs to choose from, chances are they will all at least be solid.
Sounds like your sister should have picked a better D3 school. Had she gone to a big-time P5D1 school, changing her major to one she could handle might well have cost her an extra year of school.
Thank you again everyone - have begun looking into thesis listed above. One I haven’t seen listed is Vassar. Anyone have any insight?
sammytv613 wrote:
Thank you again everyone - have begun looking into thesis listed above. One I haven’t seen listed is Vassar. Anyone have any insight?
I grew up near Vassar - Coach McCowan is a great guy and they have had a lot of success in recent years, including a few D3 All-Americans and a national champion.
Vassar is a very tough school to get into though.
Bumping this - as I typo’d times and just getting back into this. 22:15 5k is her PR
Anyone know anything about TCNJ?
Shootpost,
You seem to have a very strange academic bone to pick with D3 schools. What gives? There are clearly a number of really good D3 schools that are great options for people that:
A) Can get in
B) Can afford it either through scholarships or paying ticket price
C) Appreciate smaller institutions with smaller class sizes and/or more focus on undergrad learning
Trying to categorize D1 as good academically and D3 as bad academically is quite simply idiotic.
You have posted multiple times on this thread suggesting there is a real chip on your shoulder here.
Yes that is a very weird stance to take. There are for sure some negatives to D3 but I have literally never heard someone mention that they are academically sub par. I can see the validity of saying smaller alumni base but name recognition and poor academics is not a real thing. Any competent person has heard of MIT, CAL Tech, Claremont Colleges, Johns Hopkins, Emory and a large number more very competing and well respected institutions. I would venture to guess if someone compiled the academic qualifications of admissions to d3 vs d1 the academic qualifications for d3 are higher (probably much higher) than d1 on average.
new news wrote:
Yes that is a very weird stance to take. There are for sure some negatives to D3 but I have literally never heard someone mention that they are academically sub par. I can see the validity of saying smaller alumni base but name recognition and poor academics is not a real thing. Any competent person has heard of MIT, CAL Tech, Claremont Colleges, Johns Hopkins, Emory and a large number more very competing and well respected institutions. I would venture to guess if someone compiled the academic qualifications of admissions to d3 vs d1 the academic qualifications for d3 are higher (probably much higher) than d1 on average.
Great post - couldn’t have said it better. Now back to the topic at hand. TCNJ program?
If you were looking into CT D3 school's you have a choice between CT College, Coast Guard, Eastern and Western CT State. Coast Guard is probably the best team, CT College is expensive but have good teams yearly. Eastern and Western are cheaper with WestConn having higher academic standards then Eastern. If you live in NY/NJ WestConn gives those kids in state tuition. WestConn is a fairly new program and the coach there has improved the team yearly with not much to work with. Eastern's teams are up and down and my son hated it there. Eastern, Coast Guard and CT College are all located in the far side of the state near RI. WestConn is only about an hour from NYC and is right on the NY/CT border if that matters.
Best thing to do is reach out to the coaches for the school's she's interested in. Have an idea of what she wants to major in, her GPA, SAT, ACT scores. Academic scholarships are available at just about every school too. With covid you have to be proactive. I'm sure coaches are having a tough time evaluating kids just as kids are worrying about seeing a school and having a season.
Some good suggestions here, but if she wants to go to a top academic D3, they almost always require athletes to apply ED in November and they are already deep into recruiting. Don't wait - contact the coaches right away.
It's D1 and outside your area, but Davidson is much like a typical D3 top academic school while having D1 sports.