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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, My DS plays football on scholarship at Stanford and he had a similar profile as your son. If your son is set on G'town, and football is his hook, you need to schedule a campus visit pronto and make sure you have a visit with a football coach scheduled as well. Ideally the coach that coaches his position or the head coach. Unless you're trying to meet Urban Meyer, you can often get an appointment with the head coach.

His high school coach can, and should, also reach out to the G'town coach on his behalf. I'm sure at this point your son has films on Hudl and similar, that's really important. Fill out the 'recruit me' form if G'town has one. But the key is to get in front of the coach, pronto. Then find every opportunity for your son to go to G'town. Overnight visit, campus visit, football camp, football game, anything that will demonstrate his interest in playing at Georgetown. Make sure you are clear you will commit ED (if available).

But before you get too invested in using football as a hook, it helps to understand if your son's play style and strengths are a good fit for G'town's program - you know as well as I do that not every player thrives in every style. If he's not going to produce in their system, no matter how good he is, they won't go to bat for him with admissions.

Once you get the coach's attention, and if he likes what he sees, he will become your source of guidance and advice on how to navigate the admissions process. I cannot emphasize enough... you need to get on the coach's radar and the sooner the better.

I understand how time consuming the sport is to play at the level our son's play. He did manage to squeeze in some EC's but even most of that was related to football (volunteer to coach pee wee and he ran the clock and scoreboards at the little kids games) or could be done in the context of a school period (Spanish club). But like a PP said, having some random EC won't help his profile as much as dedication to play the sport at the D1 level.

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OP here. Thanks for all this--reinforces that he's doing everything he can and should be doing. We'll consider it a reach school but still try like heck! Thanks for all this feedback. [/quote]

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