Creating a new thread so this information will be easy to find in the fall of 2018 and beyond.
This thread will track an OBJECTIVE analysis of how accurate girls clubs in CT are about their commitment lists each year. We are not tracking subjective measures like best fit (soccer or academic) or getting into volume arguments about the size of the club’s pool of players and its impact on the quality of schools that a club can attract. We are not interested in how much scholarship money a club gets its graduating class as it is impossible to track and relies on hearsay. In addition, we are not interested in how much playing time/appearances a player makes as that can be affected by any number of factors.
This is intended as a buyer’s guide that looks at the primary marketing vehicle for clubs (“We can get your child into college”) and how truthful the clubs are about that claim each year. The analysis is simple, we take the club-published list of commits and in the fall of that year we compare it to the rosters of the colleges that the girls committed to.
We make no judgment on the REASON for the inaccuracies and, in fact, acknowledge that 18-year-old kids will change their minds about playing soccer in college (or even attending that college at all) for any number of valid/normal reasons that fall outside of the club’s purview to affect them. However, the rate of those “change-of-mind” occurrences should be relatively equal amongst all CT clubs. Large variations in accuracy can only be attributed to a willful decision by the club to mislead future/current customers about how effective they are at their primary promise, to get your child into college via soccer.
In addition, we track the quality of the destination colleges’ soccer programs by objectively looking at what percentage of those teams made the NCAA postseason in the proceeding fall season. If an otherwise stellar college program fails to make the playoffs that year, no credit is given as it should equal out in the long run across the clubs. We admit this analysis is of far less importance than the accuracy analysis as playing for a terrible soccer program in a great academic school is far better than the converse of that.
This thread will track an OBJECTIVE analysis of how accurate girls clubs in CT are about their commitment lists each year. We are not tracking subjective measures like best fit (soccer or academic) or getting into volume arguments about the size of the club’s pool of players and its impact on the quality of schools that a club can attract. We are not interested in how much scholarship money a club gets its graduating class as it is impossible to track and relies on hearsay. In addition, we are not interested in how much playing time/appearances a player makes as that can be affected by any number of factors.
This is intended as a buyer’s guide that looks at the primary marketing vehicle for clubs (“We can get your child into college”) and how truthful the clubs are about that claim each year. The analysis is simple, we take the club-published list of commits and in the fall of that year we compare it to the rosters of the colleges that the girls committed to.
We make no judgment on the REASON for the inaccuracies and, in fact, acknowledge that 18-year-old kids will change their minds about playing soccer in college (or even attending that college at all) for any number of valid/normal reasons that fall outside of the club’s purview to affect them. However, the rate of those “change-of-mind” occurrences should be relatively equal amongst all CT clubs. Large variations in accuracy can only be attributed to a willful decision by the club to mislead future/current customers about how effective they are at their primary promise, to get your child into college via soccer.
In addition, we track the quality of the destination colleges’ soccer programs by objectively looking at what percentage of those teams made the NCAA postseason in the proceeding fall season. If an otherwise stellar college program fails to make the playoffs that year, no credit is given as it should equal out in the long run across the clubs. We admit this analysis is of far less importance than the accuracy analysis as playing for a terrible soccer program in a great academic school is far better than the converse of that.
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