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The Key to Meeting College Coaches

Posted by Hans Hanson

The key to turning a 15-minute coach meeting into 60 minutes is having the right questions to ask.

You have plans to visit colleges and meet coaches. What do you want out of the meetings? To build value in the athlete? To find out if there is a real opportunity? To learn exactly what the coach's situation is? Yes, all of it...of course!

How will YOU do that? We do that by asking all the right questions. It builds value. It sheds light on the opportunity. And it provides valuable insight into the coach's situation.

We have a script of 50 Questions to Ask a College Coach. Not that your child will ask all the questions, but you can pick and choose the ones which apply best. Here are a few of the most important questions that you must ask-

- What is your 5-year plan?
- How many scholarships do you have available for the team?
- How many do you have available for my recruiting class?
- For which positions do you plan to offer a scholarship?
- What can I do to qualify for a scholarship?
- What is your timeline for making offers?
- How can you help me with admissions and costs?

Without having the right questions to ask will likely bring an abrupt end to the meeting. You will leave without having built enough value to substantiate further attention of the coach.

Having the right questions to ask will draw the coach's interest, demonstrating good organization of the athlete, while gaining important insight into the specific situation of the coach.

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Hans

CollegeLogic, GetCollegeRight
Office # 203.470.3704

The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do...

Posted by Hans Hanson

College recruiting made-simple runs through well-planned evaluations.

What's an "evaluation"? Evaluations are by coaches who are known by the athlete in advance of an event; who will specifically evaluate the athlete and provide a private feedback session within 72 hours of the event.

Well-planned evaluations will increase the athlete's likelihood of being recruited by 20 times! And they work for all NCAA sports and all levels of play.

Well-planned evaluations have replaced random-exposure. Planning for evaluations requires an advanced effort to connect with a coach in a meaningful way, thus motivating the coach to do an evaluation. Pursuing random exposure is much simpler, though far less effective.

Planned evaluations work. Chasing exposure does not. Planning evaluations is the # 1 thing you can do to boost your recruiting opportunity.

We discuss this and much more on our educational webinars. Join us for my next webinar coming right up-

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Hans

CollegeLogic, GetCollegeRight
Office # 203.470.3704

Test-Optional, good for you or good for the college?

Posted by Hans Hanson

"Why does a college go test-optional?"

Rumor has it that colleges don't value SAT's any longer as an indicator of college success. I would say that is a fallacy, a false belief, a feel-good response for parents of "poor test-takers." From a college standpoint, going test-optional has nothing to do with the value of SAT scores, but rather, it is purely a sound business decision, here's why-

A test-optional policy drives a substantial increase in the number of applicants. An increase in applicants serves two fabulous business purposes of the college.

1) A rise in the number of applicants results in a lower "acceptance-rate", which is a big deal to the college. A lower acceptance rate makes the college appear to be more selective, which in turn allows them to increase their tuition.

2) A rise in the number of applicants drives up the revenues of the Admission Office. For example, an increase of 5,000 applicants at $70 per application fee = $350,000 of application income. This is a very big deal in the Admission Office.

Make no mistake about it, the college is serving its own business interests with this policy, and it works well for them. They are not trying to be nice to you.

Join us for much more on this and other important college matters on my next webinar coming right up-

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Hans

CollegeLogic, GetCollegeRight
Office # 203.470.3704

College Admissions, What's More Important- GPA or SAT's

Posted by Hans Hanson

"Do you think SAT's are more important than ever

or less important than before?"

I typically receive about a 50/50 response when I ask this question. Half the people support their claim by citing that many colleges have gone test-optional. The other half of the people are a bit more college-wise than that. Let's see why-

If we accept that a Corporate CEO's top priority is to protect their "stock-price", then it makes perfect sense to accept that a College President's top priority is to protect its college ranking. Do we agree?

On that note, of the 15 factors that determine college ranking, the SAT/ ACT scores of incoming freshmen represent the # 4 highest weighted factor with a weight of 8.125%. Incidentally, GPA is not among the 15 factors.

I contend that SAT's are more important than ever, and especially so if scholarships are important to you!

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College Rankings, who are they fooling?

Posted by Hans Hanson

"The only college ranking that counts is your own!"

There are 15 factors that go into the U.S. News college rankings, weighted by degree of importance. Of course, we should expect the top 7 to include-

The 4-year graduation rate
The college job placement rate
The average salary of first-year jobs out of college
Internship opportunities
Research opportunities
Study-abroad opportunities
Breadth and depth of study programs

These are certainly among the key items that everyone looks for in determining the value and quality of a college, am I right?

I ask this because families across America often pick and choose colleges largely based on rankings when actually none of these items (none as in 0) are factored into college rankings at all. How absurd is that?

The # 1 highest weighted factor with a weight of 18% that determines college rankings is the-

6-year Graduation Rate

That's 6 years to graduate, not 4! Who budgets for that? This is why the only ranking that counts is your own!

Join us for much more on this and other important college matters on my next webinar-

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Hans

CollegeLogic, GetCollegeRight
Office # 203.470.3704