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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The difficulty with high-academic options is that they tend to prefer using most of their admissions help on mid and long distance runners who also run XC. Other teams, like football, will often help provide sprinters for the track team.[/quote]

So i have a freshman in college - engineering major - who faced a similar dilemma. Was a very strong student in high school and ran competitive track and xc for 4 years. His best times were in mid distance where he ran at both regionals and states as well as invitationals.

He was getting recruitment letters from D3 schools. But as someone interested in engineering, he didn't want to go a D3 school. No matter what anyone says, liberal arts schools are not competing with Michigan, Cornell, Berkeley, Rice, Duke, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Texas etc when it comes to engineering. For those schools his times in his most competitive events were at the "walk-on" level - not the "recruitment" level.

So he focused on the very good D1 school he wanted go to. Got in during the ED round. Spent the summer training. And when he arrived at college, he reached out to the track coach. The were no roster spots at all for his distance. This is D1. There are fifth and sixth year students running. And there are very few 18 year olds who are going to be competitive with 22/23 year old runners. But given his abilities, he was given a training regimen and put on a squad with other competitive freshman and team runners coming back from physical therapy. He needs to bring his time down by a few seconds.

So it's worked out so far. He gets to go to the engineering program he really wanted to. And he trains and becomes familiar with what it takes to run at the D1 level. And hopefully he joins the formal team next year.[/quote]

You don't think Hopkins, Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT are good engineering schools? [/quote]

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