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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know how D3 schools work as far as recruiting and money - specifically for track? Any chance of money being given? [/quote]

Your kid should be contacting coaches at schools of interest early junior year. Coaches will want times (easily accessible via Milesplit) and grades, along with test scores as they become available if DC will be submitting them. If all is going well, you may be offered a pre-read the summer before senior year which will go into fall.  The coach will also talk to Dc directly and suggest a campus visit; they will get to meet the team and potentially do a workout during the visit. If the school offers TO and your DC is planning to use that option, they will likely need to provide essays or writing samples in addition to the application and prior to the ED application due date.

At my DC’s pre-read, they received an indication of likely admittance if they applied ED and also if they applied RD; in our case they were fairly similar, but we did go ED. DC did receive merit aid of around $20K/year. We did not know that that was a possibility and it was purely a fluke that we did suggest DC check the ‘interested in merit aid’ box on the application. Just noting this because you will want to be sure to do that!

Good luck and do be aware that if DC will be doing both XC and track, they will have a more similar experience to D1 schools where the season never ends. It is a real thing—they really will be training all year so they should make sure that they really want to do that![/quote]

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