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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would a student/athlete place better for college coming from one of these schools because their counseling offices have close ties to recruitment coordinators and their college counseling offices are well versed in guiding students through the Academic Index?[/quote]

In our experience:

1. If you are looking for help from any Admissions Counselor of Athletic Director or coach to guide you through the Academic Index and improve your son's chances, you are flat out of luck. College Counseling offices stay far away from the athletic recruiting process and the Academic Index. They know little about the Academic Index other than it exists.

Because they don't understand it, College counselors don't know quite what to do about it. And, we got the sense the Counseling staff felt that the whole thing was unfair as they saw less well-academically qualified athletes leapfrog over better students for admission to top schools. (They then had to explain to the parents of the better student why their son didn't get into Colle X, while a less well-qualified student did because of the athletic "hook".

2. The Academic Index score "Tiers" vary by college. Only the college Athletic staff and their Admissions people understand it and know where individual athletic recruits fall on it.  A college is allowed only so-many athletic recruits in each of the Academic Index tiers. The College Athletic department has to decide where to spend their "chits".

3. What school's like Gonzaga, Prep and SJC have as an advantage over the publics is that they generally play in tougher conferences, have better coaching and the Admissions staff may have more confidence in students from these schools. The college athletic staff knows better from experience what they are actually getting in an athlete from one of these schools.  From their perspective, it's less of a gamble.

There's also the better exposure these athletes get. In our experience at one of these schools you listed we found that the contacts with the Ivies were based on Ivy alumni watching these games and contacting the coaching staffs at their alma maters. College coaches don't always have confidence in what high school coaches tell them.

There are, however, exceptions to that where colleges have excellent relationships with some high school coaches based on friendships and long experience. This is an individual sport phenomenon. You can see it happen year after year in some sports, so it's obvious what is going on.[/quote]

very good post - nice to see someone try to be positive and helpful for a change.[/quote]

NP here.  I'd add that there is no ONE recruiting process.  The sport matter immensely, as does the gender of the student.  Women's sports are required to make the Men's money sports work, so in a weird way, the recruiting for women's sports is much more intense, since there are fewer athletes and filling those teams is vital not just for the women's volleyball or soccer team, but also the men's football team.

For some men's sports, HS is the last place recruiting happens (soccer) where as for others, like football, it is basically the only place.  [/quote]

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