Confused on nescac recruiting timeline

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Pathological is spending a fortune on club soccer thinking your kid is going to get a scholarship and then talking about how important education is only after you’ve found out no one is interested in giving your kid one. It’s ok a NESCAC degree is a nice consolation prize.

Oh special one otherwise known as BTNT, how are you impacted by what other folks spend? And why would you to this phenomenally obsessional extent?

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No that’s lunacy.

Lunacy is your obsession with this topic and other families decision making

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No that’s lunacy.

Lunacy would be a pretty bright kid, selling out for a 20% scholarship at Stonehill just to play soccer.

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Pathological is spending a fortune on club soccer thinking your kid is going to get a scholarship and then talking about how important education is only after you’ve found out no one is interested in giving your kid one. It’s ok a NESCAC degree is a nice consolation prize.

Pathological is rubbing your kid's nose in the dirt and forcing her to pick a regional state school when there was plenty of money in the family and the kid was a borderline D1 level player who would have exceled in a more competitive D3 program. It's interesting because you're always in a hissy fit with any suggestion that borderline D1 players could be similar to high level D3 players, and you went all the way to the extreme of making a D1 recruit go the lowest possible level of D3. Does that mean you want to tell us that the bottom of D3 is now equivalent with the lower end of D1????

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Lunacy would be a pretty bright kid, selling out for a 20% scholarship at Stonehill just to play soccer.

What a snob!

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What a snob!

Sorry but if your kid can get into BC you don't give that up to save 10k at Stonehill

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Sorry but if your kid can get into BC you don't give that up to save 10k at Stonehill

Not even close to a fair comparison. If your kid gets into BC I'm sure you can come up with an extra 10K a year. UMass Lowell vs. Stonehill would be a better example. Although a 10K scholarship at Stonehill would still put cost above UMass Lowell.

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Not even close to a fair comparison. If your kid gets into BC I'm sure you can come up with an extra 10K a year. UMass Lowell vs. Stonehill would be a better example. Although a 10K scholarship at Stonehill would still put cost above UMass Lowell.

The level of players that BC and Stonehill get are like night and day. A better example would be to use programs ranked roughly in the same spot. BC vs Rutgers would be a closer comparison. Also the money wouldn't be $10K at that level, more likely $35k (50%) .. per year for one of the average players brought in by those schools. The top players in one of their recruiting classes will typically get offers of around 75-80%. If you still want to make your statement, why not go up in rankings and pick a school like Vanderbilt or even Princeton because as you go up the ladder the money typically starts to reduce. For example the kid that is getting 50% offers from a BC or Rutgers because they are valued as just an average player is logically going to be valued less and the money will correspond with that if they reach up. So the question might better be asked weather a family might trade off $10-15K to jump up to a school like Vandy?

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Not even close to a fair comparison. If your kid gets into BC I'm sure you can come up with an extra 10K a year. UMass Lowell vs. Stonehill would be a better example. Although a 10K scholarship at Stonehill would still put cost above UMass Lowell.

But what if your kid likes a smaller school much better, and may not do well at a BC? I guess his choice for a smaller and cheaper school don't matter. Then you can still add the soccer option.

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But what if your kid likes a smaller school much better, and may not do well at a BC? I guess his choice for a smaller and cheaper school don't matter. Then you can still add the soccer option.

If you want small, then you start looking at places like Providence, which has an enrollment of 4,300, or HC, which has an enrollment of roughly 3,000. HC is one of the smaller schools in D1 but do your really want to drop that far down in the soccer rankings? Money might be better but the level of competition might be too low if a kid has the potential to get out on the field at a place like BC.

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If you want small, then you start looking at places like Providence, which has an enrollment of 4,300, or HC, which has an enrollment of roughly 3,000. HC is one of the smaller schools in D1 but do your really want to drop that far down in the soccer rankings? Money might be better but the level of competition might be too low if a kid has the potential to get out on the field at a place like BC.

If a kid has the soccer ability to play at BC it is highly unlikely they are looking at any D2 programs. There are enough smaller D1 schools that would be a better fit than a D2 program. Now if they aren't getting off the bench at BC that's a different story, but even then they would be looking at a mid-level D1 program.

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The level of players that BC and Stonehill get are like night and day. A better example would be to use programs ranked roughly in the same spot. BC vs Rutgers would be a closer comparison. Also the money wouldn't be $10K at that level, more likely $35k (50%) .. per year for one of the average players brought in by those schools. The top players in one of their recruiting classes will typically get offers of around 75-80%. If you still want to make your statement, why not go up in rankings and pick a school like Vanderbilt or even Princeton because as you go up the ladder the money typically starts to reduce. For example the kid that is getting 50% offers from a BC or Rutgers because they are valued as just an average player is logically going to be valued less and the money will correspond with that if they reach up. So the question might better be asked weather a family might trade off $10-15K to jump up to a school like Vandy?

That's what we've been trying to tell you! That kids who apply to and are competitive for BC aren't even applying to Stonehill. Just as the potential of scholarship offers at low end D1s don't trump high D3s (again, hardly ever on the same list). And just fyi, for my money, BC and Vandy are close enough that if offered I take the 50% versus 25%.

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I love how everyone seems to know exactly what each kid should, would do. There are kids who could play for BC but can’t get in with their grades, and rely on some athletic/Fafsa money to afford college in the first place. Those kids may opt to look toward high D2 instead. Likewise, Maybe a kid could get into BC, but wants to be an impact soccer player, get more merit and althletic money, and have a smaller campus experience.

Everyone loves to comment about why a kid would never consider 2 opposite types of colleges that don’t seem equal academically and/or athletically, completely ignoring the other important factors that go in to choosing a college.

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I love how everyone seems to know exactly what each kid should, would do. There are kids who could play for BC but can’t get in with their grades, and rely on some athletic/Fafsa money to afford college in the first place. Those kids may opt to look toward high D2 instead. Likewise, Maybe a kid could get into BC, but wants to be an impact soccer player, get more merit and althletic money, and have a smaller campus experience.

Everyone loves to comment about why a kid would never consider 2 opposite types of colleges that don’t seem equal academically and/or athletically, completely ignoring the other important factors that go in to choosing a college.

Gotta love the idiots who don't know the first frigging thing about which they have their panties in a bunch. Hey nimrod, it aint D3, if BC is making an offer the kid is getting in. Their grades are already factored into the equation. Just the way things work in D1. Do some homework on how things work and quit embarrassing yourself with the sort of stupidity you posted above.

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Gotta love the idiots who don't know the first frigging thing about which they have their panties in a bunch. Hey nimrod, it aint D3, if BC is making an offer the kid is getting in. Their grades are already factored into the equation. Just the way things work in D1. Do some homework on how things work and quit embarrassing yourself with the sort of stupidity you posted above.

Ummm.. The poster said the player "could play for BC but can't get in with their grades". ie, in the example provided, the grades WERE factored into the equation, and the player didn't make the cut. There is some level of academic cut-off below which a player is determined to be academically ineligible at BC, isn't there?

You're the stupid one here, dodo, so take a breath and read more carefully, and maybe you could stop embarrassing yourself with your own idiocy.