Realities of club soccer, would you do something different?

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Ask around for a really good personal tutor. It's not cheap, but they can make a bigger impact in a shorter amount of time and you'll probably spend about the same. The prep classes are bigger and usually really boring. they have to do work on their own with no accountability. A good private tutor will hold their feet to the fire, but more importantly will help them figure out problem areas and how to improve.

If your test scores aren't good the soccer doesn't even matter.

Summer days of private soccer and SAT training.

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Summer days of private soccer and SAT training.

So glad I'm not growing up now. Our kids r going to be so burned out by the time they start working. And then they'll end up having to help us out financially because instead of saving for retirement, we're spending our savings trying to create little superstars.

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So glad I'm not growing up now. Our kids r going to be so burned out by the time they start working. And then they'll end up having to help us out financially because instead of saving for retirement, we're spending our savings trying to create little superstars.

My thoughts exactly. They can’t be kids and bloom in college because high school is the new college, kindergarten is the new second grade, and no one is content on the B team.

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Summer days of private soccer and SAT training.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough - spend you money on test prep, not soccer. If you're good enough to play in college a camp won't make a difference. Without good scores your options will be more limited even if you are a good player

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Perhaps I wasn't clear enough - spend you money on test prep, not soccer. If you're good enough to play in college a camp won't make a difference. Without good scores your options will be more limited even if you are a good player

Also take Florida virtual classes in the summer and take more AP and dual enrollment classes during the school year. Get that GPA up to 4.4 before apply after the junior year.

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Also take Florida virtual classes in the summer and take more AP and dual enrollment classes during the school year. Get that GPA up to 4.4 before apply after the junior year.

For the younger parents... soccer should be fun. Coach should be playing all the kids. Otherwise they are real jack offs. Especially under U16. Avoid the jack off coaches. They will rip you off for a year or two and then disappear.

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Two months off for summer before club practices begin August 1st
Checklist
Keep up Soccer skills and conditioning
Prep classes for SAT
Computer classes to boost GPA
College Soccer camp
Visit various colleges
Part time job
Vacation with family
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Two months off for summer before club practices begin August 1st
Checklist
Keep up Soccer skills and conditioning
Prep classes for SAT
Computer classes to boost GPA
College Soccer camp
Visit various colleges
Part time job
Vacation with family
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You forot one:

Be a kid, relax, and have fun with friends

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You forot one:

Be a kid, relax, and have fun with friends

That was the point. Be a kid and save the world , do community service hours, and everything else when on a summer soccer break.

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You forot one:

Be a kid, relax, and have fun with friends

Sorry but HS kids can't relax. Reality is if you're gunning for higher level colleges you can't take much time off unless good grades come easily to you. Even then they have to do the extra curriculars, volunteer hours. If something has to give cut back on soccer. Stay in shape but don't do lots of camps or other things. You're not going to vastly improve your game in 2.5 months. Spend time with you family. Once they go to college it gets very tough to schedule family vacations - everyone has different schedules and in the summer college kids need to work to help pay for college and build their resumes.

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Sorry but HS kids can't relax. Reality is if you're gunning for higher level colleges you can't take much time off unless good grades come easily to you. Even then they have to do the extra curriculars, volunteer hours. If something has to give cut back on soccer. Stay in shape but don't do lots of camps or other things. You're not going to vastly improve your game in 2.5 months. Spend time with you family. Once they go to college it gets very tough to schedule family vacations - everyone has different schedules and in the summer college kids need to work to help pay for college and build their resumes.

Exactly. Then think about those kids playing higher level travel Soccer and have tournaments or championships thus train through the summer. They also have to make an effort to take visits to tour soccer programs and do soccer camps.

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There are lots of academically talented students but only the gifted students from Florida who can score at or above the mean 1400 and have a 4.4 GPA are getting into UF. Out of state or special consideration students may be getting in below those marks but otherwise must be a super star. Plenty of stories on here of the 4.3 with the 1400 SAT/31 ACT not getting admitted to UF. Why bother taking 15 AP and DE classes, completing over 100 community service hours and qualifying for the top level Florida Academic Scholars Bright Futures award if it won't get them into Florida's universities? Only 10,000 students are classified as freshmen and sophomores, so that leaves the rest of the 55,000 at UF as Juniors or above. They are coming in from the community colleges later, and nothing wrong with that. Why push the high school students so hard when they can't get in? There were about 100 tested IQ gifted students in the high school senior class and only a handful got admitted to UF.

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The elite Florida students apply to the same Florida universities to see where they can get in. UF received 40,000 applications for summer/fall '18 and 34,000 applications for summer/fall '17. UF had to reject more students than ever before. The population is increasing in Florida, the Florida students are qualified, yet UF and FSU choose to go recruit out-of-state using a new common applicaiton making it easy for students to mass apply who have no intention of attending Florida if they get admitted. But to be fair how could UF deny an out of of state student who meets the mean requirements and would bring in three times more money in tuition fees? But that is also pitting Florida students against the world, and Florida isn't ranked very high as education standards go. But why put all the Florida taxpayer money into VPK early education and so much into our K-12 students, class size amendments, and so on to turn around and deny Florida's qualified students access to Florida's top universities? F'up system.

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There are lots of academically talented students but only the gifted students from Florida who can score at or above the mean 1400 and have a 4.4 GPA are getting into UF. Out of state or special consideration students may be getting in below those marks but otherwise must be a super star. Plenty of stories on here of the 4.3 with the 1400 SAT/31 ACT not getting admitted to UF. Why bother taking 15 AP and DE classes, completing over 100 community service hours and qualifying for the top level Florida Academic Scholars Bright Futures award if it won't get them into Florida's universities? Only 10,000 students are classified as freshmen and sophomores, so that leaves the rest of the 55,000 at UF as Juniors or above. They are coming in from the community colleges later, and nothing wrong with that. Why push the high school students so hard when they can't get in? There were about 100 tested IQ gifted students in the high school senior class and only a handful got admitted to UF.

Of the 10,000 combined freshman/sophomore lower undergraduate class, please remind us how many of those 10,000 are from out-of-state or international students? The total undergraduate count is around 40,000, thus 30,000 are combined junors and seniors. The dud in high school with 3.0 and low test scores has a better chance of transfering into UF or FSU from community college as a junior. The rest of the genius students who were rejected as freshmen will be off at another university studying to become astronauts for NASA or whatever their dream is.

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There are lots of academically talented students but only the gifted students from Florida who can score at or above the mean 1400 and have a 4.4 GPA are getting into UF. Out of state or special consideration students may be getting in below those marks but otherwise must be a super star. Plenty of stories on here of the 4.3 with the 1400 SAT/31 ACT not getting admitted to UF. Why bother taking 15 AP and DE classes, completing over 100 community service hours and qualifying for the top level Florida Academic Scholars Bright Futures award if it won't get them into Florida's universities? Only 10,000 students are classified as freshmen and sophomores, so that leaves the rest of the 55,000 at UF as Juniors or above. They are coming in from the community colleges later, and nothing wrong with that. Why push the high school students so hard when they can't get in? There were about 100 tested IQ gifted students in the high school senior class and only a handful got admitted to UF.

You are too white to be admitted as a Freshman or you live in the wrong state. You want UF so bad you will do the local CC? Go ahead. It is your life. Be happy. Passing up $ from another school is dumb just for a football team that isn't that good right now.