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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS plays a sport and his coach is telling him to make up a list of schools and start reaching out to coaches.  Since we're in Maryland, and since accepting a coach's offer of support would mean giving up a shot at UMD, he's only interested in schools that would be at least roughly similar or better in his chosen field, which is engineering, although he is undecided as to which major.

Any thoughts on which schools on this list meet that criteria?  Some are obvious of course.

Brown
Bucknell
Caltech
George Washington
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Marymount
MIT
Princeton
Santa Clara
Stanford
UC - Berkeley
UC - Davis
UC - Irvine
UCLA
UC - Merced
UC - San Diego
UC - Santa Barbara
USC

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Interesting position

Went through this with DC last year. Tons of offers from D3 schools. But wanted to study engineering and all the good programs are D1 schools.

For schools like MIT and Caltech, I don't think the athlete angle makes too much of a difference. Elsewhere, a coach's note will help on the margins

If this is a genuine top student that wants to compete and study engineering:

Cornell
Rice
Duke
Northwestern

Wouldn't bother with out of sate publics, particularly the UCs. And Maryland is a very good school for engineering

Also, D1 sports are hardcore. Not for everyone [/quote]

None of those schools have the sport. [/quote]

Cornell has a strong engineering program and Rice is decent. Duke and Northwestern, not so much[/quote]

Right, and he might apply to one or all of them.  But right now he's not deciding where to apply, he's deciding which coaches to reach out to, and since none of them have a coach in his sport, they aren't on the list.  [/quote]

Ah. So it doesn't matter. Colleges care about football, basketball, hockey, track, swimming

Sometimes baseball

There are like ten schools that care about crew and volleyball

If someone is having a hard time finding a coach, it mean that no one cares[/quote]

Huh?

No one is having a hard time finding a coach.  Those schools don't have water polo teams, so of course they don't have water polo coaches.  I am not sure what you are trying to say. [/quote]

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