Semi OT -- Rutgirls Hate

[JOC44]

My 15-year-old daughter is probably going to play D-1 soccer and so she'll go to some camps this summer at schools she might like to attend, both to see how she likes the coaches/campus and to find the right level where she belongs athletically.

So my wife started emailing me links to summer camps yesterday and they're coming along . . . Princeton . . . Penn . . . Nova . . . UVA . . . and then RUTGERS. And I'm like we've been married for 27 years and you think I would let one of my kids go to Rutgers? So when I got home I was giving my wife some grief about it and my daughter heard and she was like, "I would never go to Rutgers." We both then proceeded to degrade my wife for about a half hour.

 

[Frozen]

My 15-year-old daughter is probably going to play D-1 soccer

Best of luck, although the above is a bold prediction.

 

[rrlbees]

My 15-year-old daughter is probably going to play D-1 soccer and so she'll go to some camps this summer at schools she might like to attend, both to see how she likes the coaches/campus and to find the right level where she belongs athletically. So my wife started emailing me links to summer camps yesterday and they're coming along . . . Princeton . . . Penn . . . Nova . . . UVA . . . and then RUTGERS. And I'm like we've been married for 27 years and you think I would let one of my kids go to Rutgers? So when I got home I was giving my wife some grief about it and my daughter heard and she was like, "I would never go to Rutgers." We both then proceeded to degrade my wife for about a half hour.

Which HS?

 

[JOC44]

Bishop Ireton in Alexandria, VA.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Rutgers has good soccer

 

[JOC44]

But it's Rutgers.

Georgetown has good soccer too . . .

 

[orange79]

But it's Rutgers.

Georgetown has good soccer too . . .

{cough cough}

 

[Townie72]

(Note - I just re-read your post. She's 15 so she's a rising soph? Seems early.
Still and all, I'd be more strategic

Even people who live in New Jersey don't want to go to Rutgers. Just drive through the Maryland campus as take note of the NJ license plates. Or UVA. or Duke. Or Syracuse.

Rutgers is almost always a price-driven decision for NJ people. They would prefer to go elsewhere.

The DI comment is an interesting one. We have been through this process a couple of times and have known dozens of others.

In my experience, the worst possible judges of whether a players is high-D1, Mid-D1, or low D-1 or D-2 or D-III (High, middle, low) are the parents.

A kid from Ireton will most likely be very comfortable at Georgetown (If her SATs are close to the average GU students. No one wants to be the dumbest kid in the class. (Ditto all the better Catholic schools (Villanova, Notre Dame, BC, Holy Cross.) A school that is very popular with the Georgetown Visitation, Stone Ridge, Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep crowd is Loyola of Maryland in Baltimore.

But as a Virginia resident, the State Universities have got to be the best deal and good schools too (William and Mary, Mary Washington College, etc.)

 

[creatorsgam]

cusesocceracademy.com

Best of luck. Not sure if you are a fan of soccer yourself but if you ever learn the nuances of the sport, it truly is the beautiful game.

 

[OrangeinDC]

Bishop Ireton in Alexandria, VA.

Do they play Good Counsel next season??? Jr will be attending there in the fall, so if you do we'll make sure we come out and see her play!

 

[JOC44]

We play Good Counsel every season. Same conference. We played at Good Counsel last season so I'm guessing they come to Ireton this year.

 

[cuseattle]

very

My 15-year-old daughter is probably going to play D-1 soccer and so she'll go to some camps this summer at schools she might like to attend, both to see how she likes the coaches/campus and to find the right level where she belongs athletically.

So my wife started emailing me links to summer camps yesterday and they're coming along . . . Princeton . . . Penn . . . Nova . . . UVA . . . and then RUTGERS. And I'm like we've been married for 27 years and you think I would let one of my kids go to Rutgers? So when I got home I was giving my wife some grief about it and my daughter heard and she was like, "I would never go to Rutgers." We both then proceeded to degrade my wife for about a half hour.

Good luck to your daughter, and you hopefully for no tuition.

 

[Townie72]

The Ivy League for most athletes is kind of a scam.

That is, what you think you are getting in many cases is not what you actually get.

A number of years ago, a Princeton professor did a study of the post-graduation careers of Ivy League and non-Ivy league athletes.

What he found was that the post-graduation careers of these Ivy League athletes was not similar to their Ivy League classmates, but instead pretty much mirrored the careers that the non-Ivy league athletes that went to State universities had.

That shouldn't surprise anyone really. The athletes are admitted using a different system, the Ivy Academic Index. (The A.I. allows them to admit students that are actually quite average).

So the brilliant non-athlete who has won science prizes and goes to Princeton and medical school becomes a top doctor makes a ton of money. But the Ivy League athlete becomes a pharmaceutical sales rep, almost exactly what they would have been if they had gone to Penn State.

This isn't my opinion, its the PU professor's research results. Although I have some personal anecdotes that support it, like the Brown grad that works in his father's Nursery business or the Duke graduate we know who is an assistant gym teacher at a boys middle school, here.

Does an Ivy degree get some an interview or even first job. Probably. But pretty soon where you went to school makes little difference. I think its a scam.

 

[TexanMark]

Why not SU? There is a board poster here who has a niece on the team. He could give some insight...PM me if you want his name