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How to Find the Right College Recruiting Fit

 

WHAT IS THE RIGHT FIT?

When evaluating colleges it is important to find the right fit for your son or daughter. What this means is considering the athletic, academic, social, financial, and geographical criteria when making a decision or even contacting a school.

 

For example, let's say you're a student with a 3.0 GPA and a 1400 SAT score. These are good, but not excellent grades. Likely this student-athlete and family should not target Ivy League caliber schools. It is important to evaluate your athletic and academic standing and make a college recruiting game plan to target schools that are a good fit both on and off the field.

 

TIP # 1: SEARCH SCHOOLS AND USE RESOURCES

When deciding which schools to target it is important to have the right resources and research the desired colleges. As part of our Premium College Recruiting System we provide families a complete college search tool that allows you to search every college sports program by: school, division, academic requirements, tuition, enrollment and find college coaches names, emails, phone numbers, and college websites.   

 

* CollegeBoard.comis another great website to help you see academically which schools would be appropriate for you or your child.

 

TIP # 2: WATCH AND LEARN

In terms of finding the right school athletically, you need to watch the college team play either live or on television. Try to see the school’s caliber of play and if your child is developing into that caliber of an athlete.

 

TIP # 3: RESEARCH COLLEGES WEBSITE

Visit the college's website to get an idea of the type of roster that they have, what positions are already filled, where their depth chart is at, and what the backgrounds of the players are. Were they all-league in high school, or were they all-county or all-state? This is an important fact to research because your son or daughter may be an all-league player looking to play USC football, but almost all of their current players were all-state or all-Americans.

 

It's great to dream and it's great to have a vision for your career, but it's also important to be realistic and use your time wisely when you're looking at the college decision and college recruiting process.

 

Our Premium College Recruiting System provides you an easy to use and complete college search database system.

 

Our College Section has links to a number of college’s athletics pages that are using our website. Over 500 college programs use SportsForce as college recruiting resource.

 

If you have any questions or you would like to learn more about the college recruiting process and our custom highlight video packages contact one of our college recruiting experts at

858.350.5889 or visit www.sportsforceonline.com.