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Anonymous wrote:There are supports for athletes at D1 schools. Tutors plus priority access to scheduling classes. Your student should consider taking a lighter class schedule and take additional classes during the summer, especially his freshman year. What season is your child’s sport?

Academic support is for students who struggle with typical college level classes and, most likely, would be of no benefit to an engineering major.

That's not how it works for D1 athletes. Everyone who wants it gets one on one tutoring and help with all assignments

Not all schools/sports.

OP said their kid has a scholarship; scholarship athletes are taken care of

Anonymous wrote:Your kid can obviously do this. He is not going to have much of a social life and he’ll have to work hard… but I am assuming he already knew that going in.

I would say it a bit differently. The team is your social life from Day 1, something very comforting for a lot of freshmen. You won't be holed up in your room not talking to anyone outside of classes. It's just that your opportunity to socialize with people outside of your team will be more limited.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are supports for athletes at D1 schools. Tutors plus priority access to scheduling classes. Your student should consider taking a lighter class schedule and take additional classes during the summer, especially his freshman year. What season is your child’s sport?

Academic support is for students who struggle with typical college level classes and, most likely, would be of no benefit to an engineering major.

That's not how it works for D1 athletes. Everyone who wants it gets one on one tutoring and help with all assignments

Not all schools/sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Go, play a year while he gets lower division classes out of the way, then quit. Very common in D1.

This doesn't work for engineering. It's a very structured, laddered curriculum. There are (very difficult) classes that must be taken freshman year to move on to the next level of required engineering classes.

OP, don't take advice from people who don't have experience with engineering. It's completely different from other majors.

PP here. I graduated from a rigorous engineering program and went to HYSP for graduate engineering school. What I suggested is entirely possible.

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Anonymous wrote:Go, play a year while he gets lower division classes out of the way, then quit. Very common in D1.

This doesn't work for engineering. It's a very structured, laddered curriculum. There are (very difficult) classes that must be taken freshman year to move on to the next level of required engineering classes.

OP, don't take advice from people who don't have experience with engineering. It's completely different from other majors.

+1

Your kid can obviously do this. He is not going to have much of a social life and he’ll have to work hard… but I am assuming he already knew that going in.

Anonymous wrote:Go, play a year while he gets lower division classes out of the way, then quit. Very common in D1.

This doesn't work for engineering. It's a very structured, laddered curriculum. There are (very difficult) classes that must be taken freshman year to move on to the next level of required engineering classes.

OP, don't take advice from people who don't have experience with engineering. It's completely different from other majors.

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Anonymous wrote:There are supports for athletes at D1 schools. Tutors plus priority access to scheduling classes. Your student should consider taking a lighter class schedule and take additional classes during the summer, especially his freshman year. What season is your child’s sport?

Academic support is for students who struggle with typical college level classes and, most likely, would be of no benefit to an engineering major.

That's not how it works for D1 athletes. Everyone who wants it gets one on one tutoring and help with all assignments

Anonymous wrote:You are not taking into account the serious negative consequences of taking up a slot and then quitting for academic reasons. The other team members can be absolutely brutal. If this is the plan going in, make sure your DS has a full social circle outside his sport team.

All 6 of them? I had a roommate who quit football at a low level D1 school the first week of classes and he had no problems socially.

It’s really difficult to play D1 sports while studying engineering. Unless the coach is very flexible with practice/fitness schedule he’ll likely have a lot of conflicts. This is obviously harder for team sports.

I stopped playing after my sophomore year because of the conflicts/workload. A friend with a different sport did stick it out though.

-D1 athlete & engineer

At our school it was HARDER if you were a STEM major to also be an athlete, but not impossible. But all the STEM majors were very very driven and plenty of them made it work with athletics as well.

Go, play a year while he gets lower division classes out of the way, then quit. Very common in D1.

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Anonymous wrote:You want your kid to quit before he even tries?

Can you read?

“told DS to attend college and stick to biomedical engineering major and if things get too hard with both academic and athletic, just quit the team and focus on academics. The university is not going to expel him, can they?”

Try this

“ you can do both, I know you are smart enough, a hard worker and have good time management skills. Don’t listen to teammates, most can’t do engineering and not do a sport. It’s gonna be hard but you can do it.”

I like OPs wording better b/c if the kid struggles you've set yourself up as someone who might not be in their corner, and dogging their peers shouldn't be part of a motivational strategy.

It’s not the kids gonna quit the minute he gets a C or. 2.2 GPA. Quitting is already in his head.

Staying on the team means preferential scheduling, a set peer/support group, free counseling, free tutoring, a healthy outlet.

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Anonymous wrote:There are supports for athletes at D1 schools. Tutors plus priority access to scheduling classes. Your student should consider taking a lighter class schedule and take additional classes during the summer, especially his freshman year. What season is your child’s sport?

Academic support is for students who struggle with typical college level classes and, most likely, would be of no benefit to an engineering major.

Plus, if the engineering student doesn't have enough time for both academic and athletic commitments, making time for tutoring would be hard to do.

FWIW Many engineering students take 5 years--instead of 4 years--to earn their degree.

Anonymous wrote:You are not taking into account the serious negative consequences of taking up a slot and then quitting for academic reasons. The other team members can be absolutely brutal. If this is the plan going in, make sure your DS has a full social circle outside his sport team.

This is not a thing.