A recruiting guide for high-GPA soccer athletes: start with NESCAC schools and low-acceptance-rate institutions, practice phone calls with Division III programs before approaching Division I, and use compliments from ID camps as references when contacting other Division I schools like Ivy League programs.
If you have above a 3.9 GPA and you want to play college soccer, please do the following. Number 1, when you send your mass email to many schools, send the email first to the top academic schools. If you're not sure which top academic schools to send it to, consider the NESCAC conference, and then you can also do a Google research and go which schools have the most difficult acceptance rates, and those tend to be the top academic and coincidentally often very good soccer schools. Before you set up phone calls with Division I schools, set up phone calls with Division III schools. First of all, you want to practice being on the phone with maybe a school you don't care about quite as much, so that way you can get the nerves out. Number 2, set up phone calls with the Division III programs. I also want you to set them up for D1s, but if you're doing this process appropriately, it means that you probably started your freshman and sophomore year, and Division I schools can't do phone calls with you. So get the phone calls done during your freshman and sophomore year. Number 3, Start emailing the Division I schools that are the top academic schools, the Ivy Leagues, and as they respond to you, those Division I schools, maybe consider going to their ID camp and use the compliments that they will give you to refer back to the Division I schools. For example, if Dartmouth tell you you've done a great job, ask them to be a reference, and then you can go talk to Carnegie Mellon with a reference from Dartmouth. If you want more help playing college soccer, give me a call, link in bio.
