About 99% of college soccer ID camps are profit-driven and won't get you recruited. Skip the hype. Go to individual school camps, elite invite-only events like MIT's, or reputable local clinics like Masters 60. Submit video highlights beforehand and attend the same camp multiple times.
99% of ID camps are cash grabs. Here are the actual 1% that will help you get recruited. Individual ID camps where there's one school attending. Now it's worth your time if you've got genuine interest or if you're playing MLS Next or ECNL, going as a Division I player is also worth your time. If you're not at those levels, you should still go, but you should not expect to just get recruited. You're going to have to get seen multiple times. I just got off the phone call with a player who's 6'3", playing MLS Next, and it looks like Erling Haaland. He should go to every single Division I ID camp because he's gonna get picked right away. I'm 5'5". I was not gonna get picked. So I need to send video beforehand. I need to go to the camp multiple times, and then over time they will pick me, but it will take extra time. Elite invite-only ID camps. You don't hear about these very often because they're invite-only. MIT does host an ID camp that's typically invite-only. There's a handful of other schools that limit the number of students that can come to the ID camp. These are great ones. Masters 60. Harvard Clinic are all great Mass ID camps, especially if you're a sophomore or younger. If you go as a junior, you can still go, but 90% of the time the coaches are going to tell you, "Just come to my individual ID camp." So you're really better off going 8th, 9th, 10th grade. If any ID camp says to you, "You're one of our all-star players," like Exact does that, that is a BS, not helpful camp. Do not go. Do not go to any other country for an ID camp either. Stay in the United States. If you would like to know a list of ID camps that I recommend for you, comment the word quiz and I can send you a quiz to figure out which ID camps are good for you and which ID camps are bad for you.
