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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian male
Tennis player rated in the top 600 in nation
3.9/4.0 GPA, 7 AP's by sophomore year + 5 AP's next year
SAT not taken yet, but expecting around 1500 per practice tests
Volunteered at hospital and some research at a university but nothing published.

Not sure about major, but definitely not engineering or medicine. Maybe interested in law or business.

What are his chances among the top 30 universities? Great? Reasonable? Not likely?[/quote]

I would think his chances are great. If he's already getting 1500 on his SAT as a sophomore, he'll probably do even better as a junior. If he wants to play tennis in college, I would suggest he perhaps look at Div. 3 schools.

My daughter was a nationally ranked tennis player and was also in the top 600. She wasn't Div. 1 level. She probably could have played Div. 2, but most of the Div. 2 schools are not particularly academic (although Emory-Riddle Aeronautical University is an exception). Most liberal arts colleges are Div. 3, and being recruited for the tennis team would very likely ensure your DC entry with his academic stats. My daughter wanted the liberal arts experience and went to a top 15 LAC, where she was extremely happy.

The following universities are Div. 3:  MIT, U of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, and WashU . 
If he's looking at schools of that caliber and is interested in liberal arts colleges, he might also want to look at, for example, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Grinnell, Carleton, Bowdoin, etc.

Perhaps he could reach out to the tennis coaches at those schools? If he wants to get onto their radar, I would suggest you get premium access to https://www.tennisrecruiting.net/ (I can't remember what it costs, but it's not exorbitant) and list schools that he is interested in. You can enter more personal information like ACT, SAT, GPA, your phone number, and email address in a way that is only visible to tennis coaches. Every time he makes a change to his Tennis Recruiting profile, the coaches at the schools he's listed will be alerted. Prepare to get TONS of phone calls and letters. We did this with our daughter, and she immediately started getting contacted by coaches. It made the college application process so easy and stress-free. She narrowed down to three T15 LACs, and we visited just those three. She was assured entry to all of them even before submitting an application, and she applied to her first-choice ED1, which was really a formality at that point. She also got quite a lot of financial assistance.

I don't know if your son would want to play Div. 1. From what I've heard, it is very demanding in terms of time (almost like working a full-time job), which can get in the way of academics. Div. 3 usually only requires 2-3 hours a day, plus traveling to tournaments over the weekends during season. Of course, you can always drop tennis after you've been accepted. My daughter played all four years in college and loved it. She arrived on campus and almost immediately had a good friend group in the team. We parents found our own friend group in the parents of the team members.

Even if your son doesn't play tennis in school, being a nationally ranked player should give his application a major boost. With his academics, he should be well-poised to get into a really good school. My family really enjoyed the journey of playing tennis and looking at colleges. I miss those days. Good luck!

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