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Want To Play College Football: 4 Strategies For Getting Recruited

January 20, 2016 By: Chad Category: College Sports No Comments →

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If you’re a high school football player looking to make it big on a college football team, it’s not enough to train hard and play hard. You also need to know how to handle conversations with recruiters. Often, however, student athletes are not primed for these conversations. Here’s what to expect from the recruiting process.

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When to Hire a Private College Admissions Counselor

June 30, 2008 By: Category: Admissions insider, Get into College, The recruiter insider 3 Comments →

Of course, like everything, every student has different needs.  It is not universally true that every high schooler undergoing the college application process needs to hire an admission “expert”. Granted, hardly any who call themselves such truly know much more than any guidebook could tell you.  There is, however, one thing that is indisputable: all young people need advocates in their lives.  Sadly, a common trend in education, private and public, alike, is that the high school guidance and college counseling departments are too overworked and underfunded to offer much more than one or two generic meetings to discuss the local and in-state university landscape.  Not to mention, they all too often quickly dismiss certain universities as unrealistic and impossible for the student to gain admission.  There have been very few instances that I can recall where I have said to someone that he/she can’t gain admission somewhere.  It’s just not a good habit to practice.  With the constantly changing state of the college admission process, you might want to look into hiring a private counselor if you meet any of the following criteria….

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