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[quote=Anonymous]You'll have a good feel by August.  Assuming your son has good grades then pick a couple Ivy camps.  Each will be attended by at least 10 smaller D3 academic schools as well as the host school.  Right now if you're getting letters that's good but the top schools (FCS and Ivy) have been making offers the past couple weeks to the top candidates.  There have been quite a few in this area.

Pick some places that you like at D1, D2 and D3.  Understand that the only D3 schools that really recruit in fall of senior year are the highly academic ones.  Think Hopkins, Chicago, WashU, NESCACs.  The rest are happy to talk to you and use the D1 camps as a source of candidates, but they don't kick in full time until the weekend after signing day in February.  Enjoy the tour.  Get some good food, meet some coaches at different levels.  If you don't have any D1 offer by the time camp starts in August you should probably think another level.  Not much goes on in the fall season, then the FCS teams fill their walk-on spots and the lower levels will be very busy in December and January.

Also try to get someone at some college to honestly evaluate your player.  This is tough.  Ask your coach.  100 kids or more show up for a camp day and the host school really works 10-20 at most.  The summer is for figuring out your player's level.  Once you realize that the decision making is much easier.  Too many parents try to evaluate their player and overrate their candidate.  This really takes you out of productive discussions with the level schools who are likely to be the most interested.  Talk to everyone you can to try to get that information as early as possible.  There are a lot of great schools out there with fun football programs.[/quote]

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