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[quote=Anonymous]If you just played for your high school, lower to mid-D3 is realistic. Very bottom of D2 might be the equivalent. It also depends on the school.

You have to find out how players are recruited into the program. Coaches of competitive lower division programs do their recruiting but still have open tryouts for 2 days in the fall.

So you could have 20-30 players trying out as "walk ons" for 2 spots. Some schools do not even hold tryouts as they only take players they have scouted/recruited and or you have to be invited to try outs.

Private schools - better chance because people go there for the academics or for whatever the school offers that's worth paying for. Especially if it's in a rural area or outside a major metro area that lacks soccer talent.

Big D3 public schools could have a large population of players who want to walk on every year. Some of these players could have played in college but chose not to as freshman for whatever reason.

When you get to college, you can always play men's club soccer, which still has some great players who just didn't want to play in college, or went to a big school for the academics where you have to be youth national team material just to play there. University of Maryland is a good example of this.

College soccer is intense, and there is always pressure to perform at every practice, every training session, etc. Everyone is hungry to play, and teams carry 25-30 players in some cases.

But, with smaller D3 schools where coaches have a hard time recruiting players, or small private schools... different environment. It depends on what you want.[/quote]

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