Summary from
What You Need to Know About
Taking an
“Unofficial” College Visit
“Official” campus visits are
exciting because the college pays the travel costs, indicating a
strong interest in the player. An “unofficial” visit may serve the same
purpose, except that the student-athlete pays for travel costs.
DI & DII schools often are limited by
budgets to just how many official visits can be offered.
DIII schools almost
always schedule unofficial recruiting trips paid by the
student families. However, student-athlete prospect are getting recruited in these cases. They are still getting the
campus tour, meeting the team, and talking to the coaches about
opportunities.
Be proactive and don’t limit
yourself to only “official” visits to schools. If you
are interested in a school, and they haven’t offered you
an official visit, take the initiative and schedule a unofficial
visit with the coach so that he or she knows you are serious
about their school.
Here’s a quick list of when to consider an “unofficial” visit to a campus:
- When you’ve been recruited by a coach, but haven’t been offered an “official” visit to the school by late Fall of your Senior year.
- When you are looking to attend a Division III school that doesn’t offer athletic scholarships, and can’t pay for “official” visits to their prospects.
- When you and your family are going to be in the area where a college is located, and would be convenient to visit (like during a family vacation).
- When you are interested in a program, but that program does not know about you or is not seriously recruiting you. Making a personal appearance shows a coach that you are a highly interested prospect.
If you feel like you need to be
more proactive in getting coaches to seriously consider you as an
option for their college roster, few things can be as valuable as
arranging an unofficial campus visit.
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