A college soccer consultant says Ivy League recruiting starts in 7th grade and demands near-perfect test scores (1580 SAT), highlight videos, and side projects like internships or startups. He offers a service to automate recruiting outreach and video production, citing placements at Harvard, Northwestern, MIT, and Caltech.
If you want to play at an Ivy League school college soccer, this is what you need to do. So first of all, if you took away soccer and you're like, I just want to go to an Ivy League school, there are kids in 6th and 7th grade who are already getting internships, who are already getting jobs, who are trying to go on Shark Tank in order to go to Ivy League schools. So right off the bat, you're not only competing with high-level athletes, probably the best level athletes there are because it's the highest academic schools and very good soccer teams, but also kids who whose job in life has been since 12 years old to literally get into Ivy League school. So how do you compete with that? Now the good news is sport could be the reason that you're going to be able to outplay or outbeat the 12-year-olds who have been doing science internships since they were 12, 13 years old. But you still have to take it as seriously, if not more seriously, than the 12 and 13-year-olds who are already doing internships in order to go to those Ivy League schools. So what you need to do is you need to start the recruiting process in 7th, 8th grade. And when I say the recruiting process, I mean making video, going to better club teams. And then you too need to think about doing an internship, about getting a potential job, about starting a business, making money, or making a difference in the world. That's what these schools want when you do the application. Yes, soccer could be the reason you end up getting into the school, but you still have to have amongst the good enough grades. You still have to have above a 1580 SAT score, within the 31-33 scores of ACT scores. You have to have a passion project and extracurriculars in addition to soccer, which is insane because you're playing soccer while, you know, the 12, 13-year-olds who don't have sport can just do internships because they're not playing a sport. Colleges expect athletes to do both, right? You're going to be a student athlete one day. One day you're gonna be playing soccer and doing an internship. So they expect you to start doing that in high school if you want to go to the Ivy League schools. So what we do with our students is we actually will help them start a business or a passion project. But more importantly, because I'm the college soccer guy, we get them started on the soccer part so So then they have the means and the energy and the time to theoretically start a business or start a nonprofit or do something super extracurricular because we've automated the college soccer recruiting process. We've got their emails sorted. We can make their videos in 10 minutes. Those types of things I do for my students. So if you're serious and like, I wanna go to a top academic D3 school or an Ivy League school, you have to start thinking about this and taking action, ID camps and video, in 7th, 8th grade. That's the deal. Are there exceptions to that? There are, always will be, but I don't want you to be out of control. I want it to be in your control, and you give yourself way more power if you start getting educated and start understand— understanding the process earlier. If you want more help playing college soccer, give me a call. Link in the bio. We've had multiple kids. We have a kid at Harvard, we have a kid at Northwestern, we have a kid at MIT, at Caltech. These are the types of things they did in order to go to these top academic schools. Talk to me if you want. Bye.
