Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s a college recruit at a D3…. Seriously.

Pick the school you want to attend. Injuries happen, bad coaches happen, preferences change.

Our barometer was “is this where you want to be if we take the sport out of the equation? Is this the best place for you?

My son had a lot of interest from some really poor academic D1s and some low level D3s. He chose the Ivy and club sport. It’s really played out in the internships and connections, etc. He’s also a kid that is really academically curious and takes advantage of that environment.

I agree. Going to a d3 school as a “recruit” is just an educational blow job. They don’t pay you and it impacts your actual education- which is what you’ll pay through the nose for.

I played a d3 sport and it was a bad decision.go where you want and play club vs hanging on to some notion of being a “ncaa athlete”:

When non players at d1 schools l are on a fee ride and making $40k a year to boot- sure! Paying to make it harder to succeed at academics, for a kid who will never play that sport again post college (if it’s a team sport) bs just going where you want and playing club? Insane and totally an ego driven thing.

Karen, or in this case Karl is pretty slow. When someone can use athletic skill to almost “guarantee” admission to top schools it is the opposite of bad. When being a member of that team then provides a huge boost into top paying careers it is the opposite of bad. When successfully completing an athletic career (along with having the grades and scores) is such a strong advantage for med school that it is almost a hook it is the opposite of bad.

You didn’t have what it takes and it didn’t work for you but for those that do…..huge benefits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s a college recruit at a D3…. Seriously.

Pick the school you want to attend. Injuries happen, bad coaches happen, preferences change.

Our barometer was “is this where you want to be if we take the sport out of the equation? Is this the best place for you?

My son had a lot of interest from some really poor academic D1s and some low level D3s. He chose the Ivy and club sport. It’s really played out in the internships and connections, etc. He’s also a kid that is really academically curious and takes advantage of that environment.

I agree. Going to a d3 school as a “recruit” is just an educational blow job. They don’t pay you and it impacts your actual education- which is what you’ll pay through the nose for.

I played a d3 sport and it was a bad decision.go where you want and play club vs hanging on to some notion of being a “ncaa athlete”:

When non players at d1 schools l are on a fee ride and making $40k a year to boot- sure! Paying to make it harder to succeed at academics, for a kid who will never play that sport again post college (if it’s a team sport) bs just going where you want and playing club? Insane and totally an ego driven thing.

Karen, or in this case Karl is pretty slow. When someone can use athletic skill to almost “guarantee” admission to top schools it is the opposite of bad. When being a member of that team then provides a huge boost into top paying careers it is the opposite of bad. When successfully completing an athletic career (along with having the grades and scores) is such a strong advantage for med school that it is almost a hook it is the opposite of bad.

You didn’t have what it takes and it didn’t work for you but for those that do…..huge benefits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s a college recruit at a D3…. Seriously.

Pick the school you want to attend. Injuries happen, bad coaches happen, preferences change.

Our barometer was “is this where you want to be if we take the sport out of the equation? Is this the best place for you?

My son had a lot of interest from some really poor academic D1s and some low level D3s. He chose the Ivy and club sport. It’s really played out in the internships and connections, etc. He’s also a kid that is really academically curious and takes advantage of that environment.

I agree. Going to a d3 school as a “recruit” is just an educational blow job. They don’t pay you and it impacts your actual education- which is what you’ll pay through the nose for.

I played a d3 sport and it was a bad decision.go where you want and play club vs hanging on to some notion of being a “ncaa athlete”:

When non players at d1 schools l are on a fee ride and making $40k a year to boot- sure! Paying to make it harder to succeed at academics, for a kid who will never play that sport again post college (if it’s a team sport) bs just going where you want and playing club? Insane and totally an ego driven thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s a college recruit at a D3…. Seriously.

Pick the school you want to attend. Injuries happen, bad coaches happen, preferences change.

Our barometer was “is this where you want to be if we take the sport out of the equation? Is this the best place for you?

My son had a lot of interest from some really poor academic D1s and some low level D3s. He chose the Ivy and club sport. It’s really played out in the internships and connections, etc. He’s also a kid that is really academically curious and takes advantage of that environment.

I agree. Going to a d3 school as a “recruit” is just an educational blow job. They don’t pay you and it impacts your actual education- which is what you’ll pay through the nose for.

I played a d3 sport and it was a bad decision.go where you want and play club vs hanging on to some notion of being a “ncaa athlete”:

When non players at d1 schools l are on a fee ride and making $40k a year to boot- sure! Paying to make it harder to succeed at academics, for a kid who will never play that sport again post college (if it’s a team sport) bs just going where you want and playing club? Insane and totally an ego driven thing.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s a college recruit at a D3…. Seriously.

Pick the school you want to attend. Injuries happen, bad coaches happen, preferences change.

Our barometer was “is this where you want to be if we take the sport out of the equation? Is this the best place for you?

My son had a lot of interest from some really poor academic D1s and some low level D3s. He chose the Ivy and club sport. It’s really played out in the internships and connections, etc. He’s also a kid that is really academically curious and takes advantage of that environment.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, it depends on the sport. For some niche sports there is no difference in level of competition between D3 and D1 (or D2 for that matter), since the meets are more based on geographic and the competitive level is rather similar.
Like yours, DC lives for their sport, but did not like ED since they want to compare all their offers. Was recruited in the summer before senior year by a tippy top academic (national university) D3 school in the east cost and easily passed the summer read. Rejected coach's offer to apply ED and instead applied RD. Received Likely Letter in mid-Feb and RD offer in March with some merit aid.

Op this is encouraging! But I must admit we are nervous to reject ED d3 spots now because they are being made with merit aid offers. We don’t know if that money will be there if we do RD. DC’s ‘merit’ is more tied to the sport than academics.

This would be very rare if it happened at all. There is only one or two schools on the east coast where it would be remotely possible and neither of the schools would be likely to have slots still open in RD unless the recruit was truly special. Both are strong D3 programs and they have plenty of candidates to choose from.

PP. Yes, it is not common and considered to be a gutsy move. Your DC must be very confident (or in our case willing to sacrifice the slot) in rejecting ED. There are only two top academic schools in the east coast that are D3 (hint: ranked 2nd and 7th this year). Both have strong athletic program, but placed academics well above sports. One has a weak coach's recommendation influence, the other a strong one. So your DC has leverage if possesses stellar academics on top of recruited level athleticism. The Likely Letter and RD offer came with about 1/3 tuition merit aid. DC received full merit aid at another T20 and decided to forgo varsity and join Team instead. Still travel to national competitions throughout the year, but glad that they can practice when they want to, not when they have to. The PP who mentioned rapid waning of bragging pride in joining the varsity team is quite correct. The only case when varsity makes financial sense are for Top 10 D1 Varsity football, basketball, baseball, tennis and golf.

There are a couple more schools than that depending on how you define top academic and how close to the coast. JHU will issue likely letters but not super common, you need to be one of their top recruits.

Bingo!