Admission Consulting

Finding a college isn’t the easiest thing to do. Finding a college that you will love attending may even be harder. That was perhaps one of the biggest decisions I was faced with as I contemplated where I would attend school at. However, the biggest influence I had was what kind college scholarship I would receive. Now I’m not talking about an academic scholarship, but a athletic one. That’s because I was an athlete, and it was my desire to play on at a higher level. But because of my location and circumstances from playing at a low profile high school, I didn’t have many opportunities pointing my way.

Here’s how it works. A recruiter from a school travels around the United States visiting high school state tournaments. Because my team wasn’t very good and didn’t see much post season action I had to trust on my coach and who she knew so that my name would be the name being discussed among college scouts. If only there would have been an easier way to let my abilities be made known. Now I know that I wasn’t the next Lisa Leslie, but I knew I was good enough to play at the next level.

In the recruiting world, a good athlete can’t compete with those who have the good name, or those that know the right people. That really needs to change. I had to do my own search to find a college that was proper for me. compared colleges around the state after being contacted by a few of them.. a number of them. Fortunately, my coach had a good relation with the people at a junior college that had a good reputation.

I got lucky and found a fantastic junior college to play for, but even though I found a team, I still ponder on what could have happened if I had a college search tool available to me or someplace where I would be able to post highlight reels about me for all coaches to see across the USA.

My luck didn’t end there. After I finished junior college a university in Alaska found me and offered me a full-ride college scholarship to play for them. While I feel truly blessed in how my college sports career turned out, I wondered if there was an easier way to get college scholarships or to even do a college search. I pictured a place where students could go to find a college and where colleges could go to find students or athletes in my case.

I am familiar with the recruiting process that coaches go through. First coaches have to do some searching far and wide which costs time and money. If they don’t go across the country looking, they are still at home doing their best to find players by calling around and talking with their friends in the coaching business. I remember helping my own coach, the year after I finished playing. I had to fill and address envelopes to to nearly every coach in America asking if they had any people available. What a terrible waste of paper.

Well now there is something much better, something that is revolutionizing the college admissions process. A new website that allows students to control the whole admissions process has been made. Power is shifting from the admissions officer to the student and things couldn’t look brighter for prospective college students. Now my old coach will be able to view athletes own personal highlight videos and recruit those that will best fit the teams program.

By: Mindy Lindquist

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