Our kid is heading into 8th grade. Many of her teammates are heading to private schools for highschool. It has never been in the plans for our kids to go to private school. My wife and I are both public school kids who went to college and have successful careers. We want her to be part of her town and play sports in high school. It’s weird though as more players are heading to the private schools promised more financial aid, better coaching, and academics. I’d our kid going to be less likely to get into college or play sports in college because we stuck with the public schools. We moved to our town because of the schools being good. Seems a waste to now go private for better soccer coaches and maybe better academics?
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high school soccer and prep soccer have nearly zero influence on college soccer recruiting. It’s different for other sports.
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uninformed or just brainless?Originally posted by Guest View Post
1) not a coincidence that privates are over represented on top club teams, especially ECNL, in MA
2) private schools are way over represented in college admissions
3) D3 college admissions offices and soccer coaches use private school attendance as a rough filter for ability of family to do full pay.
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Colleges don’t ever talk to high school coaches (private or public). Do it for academics but it will have zero influence on soccer.Comment
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It all depends on the situation. Public high school is going to do nothing for your child related to college soccer but club will fill that void. The top teams in NEPSAC play a much higher level of soccer on the boys side for sure. I think you see more high level club girls still playing public hs soccer. If you play on one of the better prep teams you are going to play and practice with top level players which gives opportunity to continue improve your child’s game. Prep school coaches in good programs are definitely contacted by college coaches. High school soccer is for the social aspect esp for girls. On the boys side there is risk for injury as the skill level is lower but with a high age physicality. The decision should be ultimately be made based on academics. Private school provides smaller class size and flexibility in courses which can lead to higher engagement in learning. Soccer is an aspect that may help your child get into a better school than they would have otherwise but it is important to keep that in perspective.Comment
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You are funny. Kids are NOT getting recruited by D1 because they go to private schools. Kids are being recruited by private schools because they play on good clubs and will play in college if they go to private school or not. Getting the good players to play in private schools just gets stupid parents to pay for their kids to go to private school.Originally posted by Guest View Post
look at other states. Private school teams are not as good as top public schoolsComment
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I’m not the person who commented above. But you have no idea, do you? Just look at the top recruits from MA. They are overweighted on privates mainly in NEPSAC. Yes, club matters but so does playing for the top prep leagues. College coaches do come watch the schools play but not the publics. It does make a big difference in recruiting.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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That just means those players come from rich families. They would get recruited to college teams regardless of where they go to high school.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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My daughter plays on an average ISL team. It barely comes up in conversation with college coaches. Everything is focused on club. Maybe it’s different if you play on one of the top ISL schools but in our experience it hasn’t mattered at all either way for an average school. I think the reason you see a lot of NEPSAC kids at NESCAC schools is because they have the academic abilities to be recruited there.
Not to discount anyone else’s experience but ours is that it hasn’t mattered one way or the other. We chose a HS based solely on academics and let club be our soccer focus.Comment
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For girls, it doesn’t matter. For boys, playing for a top NEPSAC team is important.Comment
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My daughter’s college coach spoke to her club coach and DOC. Also spoke to an opposing club coach and DOC.Originally posted by Guest View Post
Her public HS coach and Athletic Director, also an opposing HS coach, all had conversations with them before an offer was sent to her.
Colleges speak to lots of people to get an understanding of the person. The player they can see for themselves, but they are recruiting people. Who they are and how they act is a representation on the program and if their job is on the line and giving a kid tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars off
their tuition bill, they try their best to get it rightComment
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My niece went the private school route, played three sports and went for virtually nothing. It helped getting her into an NESCAC school where she concentrated on one sport and did well. She was a decent student before and came out a great student and has a great career. Worked out great for her.Comment
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I wouldn’t think it would help a ton from a recruiting perspective but does from a preparatory perspective. Most privates will have higher academic and athletic standards to help get them ready to compete in college.
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Private schools are the only way to go both academically and athletically.Comment
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They are “A” way, a great way for some in the right circumstances. Not the ONLY way.Originally posted by Guest View Post
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