DIII Golf at Carnegie Mellon

[Lihu]

47 minutes ago, Akman said:

I had meant that I already have  good grades, a 3.9 uw and a 4.4 weighted. My question was that , would they be able to admit me if I make the golf team and pass all the qualification needed for cmu?

That might be fine then.

My son's friend from a previous year who got in had an UW of 3.9 as well. His SAT were something like 1450 (or higher?), and he didn't do any sports in high school.

You might have a decent chance, but possibly no scholarship. He just got in.

Are you looking to study Engineering or Music? Because if you are, you have time to play too much golf anyway. CMU has not announced acceptances this year as far as I know?

Edited March 25, 2017 by Lihu
Son took new one, not his friend. . .

[Hardspoon]

3 hours ago, Lihu said:

CMU has not announced acceptances this year as far as I know?

No, they send out letters in April.

As others in this thread have mentioned, at a school like Carnegie Mellon, admissions and athletics are two entirely separate things (for all sports).  First you apply and decide to attend, and then you try to make the team(s).

[Denny Bang Bang]

@Akman At any level, a good coach will make the effort to know the school's programs, general admission standards, and be able to tell you who to get in touch with for your questions... whether it's financial aid, admissions, or department (e.g. Education School, Business School, etc.).  DIII is certainly not like the DI experience, where you're guided through the entire process.

A lot of colleges and universities do take extra curricular activities into account when making admission decisions.  Being involved in more than just academics, shows a student is well rounded.

I will say this as advice, do your homework before you get touch with the coach.  We were always more impressed with the kids who had their stuff together.  Do your homework on CMU (or any other school you're interested in), then get in touch with the coach(es), letting them know your intentions to apply to the school and of your interest in playing on the golf team.  Ask what they look for in a student athlete, and where your game needs to be to make the team.

[Buckeyebowman]

14 hours ago, boogielicious said:

That is not quite true. Often times they mask athletic scholarships as academic ones. My small engineering school claimed this but then was caught in the lie by a Boston Globe article. The article was not trying to out them or anyone, but the school stupidly gave information to get PR. It was an article about student althletes. I also had close friends that were getting academic scholarships because of their athletic ability.

I was an alumni at the time and wrote a nasty letter. They wrote back profusely apologizing. It was the lie that was more worrisome to me rather than them wanting student athletes. Just tell the damn truth.

OK. But that in no way negates the NCAA rule against athletic scholarships for D3 athletes! Just because your school tried to cheat doesn't mean the rule doesn't exist. In truth, it affirms it, since they got caught and were probably punished. Also you, yourself, were motivated enough by the deception to write a nasty letter. 

There's a D3 football powerhouse right in my back yard, Mount Union College in Alliance, OH. They have won more national championships than I can remember. When you hear their players interviewed on TV they all sound like Rhodes Scholars!

EDIT: Hmmmm, it was the Boston Globe that blew your cover? You didn't go to MIT did you?

Edited March 26, 2017 by Buckeyebowman

[iacas]

I'll say three things and let @boogielicious handle it from there…

• Every school sets their own admissions policies. It has to be pretty darn severe to rise to the level of an NCAA violation.
• Tone it down with the "cheating" words and whatnot, @Buckeyebowman.
• This topic isn't about DIII college sports. It's about CMU and @Akman's desire to play for them and attend school there. Let's stick to the topic, please.

[boogielicious]

8 hours ago, Buckeyebowman said:

OK. But that in no way negates the NCAA rule against athletic scholarships for D3 athletes! Just because your school tried to cheat doesn't mean the rule doesn't exist. In truth, it affirms it, since they got caught and were probably punished. Also you, yourself, were motivated enough by the deception to write a nasty letter. 

There's a D3 football powerhouse right in my back yard, Mount Union College in Alliance, OH. They have won more national championships than I can remember. When you hear their players interviewed on TV they all sound like Rhodes Scholars!

EDIT: Hmmmm, it was the Boston Globe that blew your cover? You didn't go to MIT did you?

I'm not sure why you are being so defensive on this. I was responding to the assertion that D3 schools don't give out "athletic" scholarships, which is not exactly true. There are ways around it.

Back on topic please.

[caniac6]

On ‎3‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 1:16 PM, iacas said:

DIII schools in general?

There are players that don't break 100 and players that have +2 handicaps, and all start. Some DIII schools don't have enough players. One DIII player, in my conference championship before I was coach, shot rounds of 162 and 158. The guy who medaled shot lower over two days than his 158 over one day (and that score was probably suspect… I'm sure his fellow competitors just took the "12" or whatever he would say at face value when it may have been a 13 or 15 or whatever).

Travel varies too. My team wins our conference a lot (7 of the last 8, the last 6 in a row) and we earn an automatic bid to Nationals when we do. So we travel for that, and we travel in the fall AND the spring. Some colleges only play golf in the fall OR the spring.

You can find out a lot of this information yourself, and if you're intelligent enough to get into Carnegie Mellon, you're going to be smart enough to find the answers to these basic questions yourself.

I worked at a course that hosted the D3 national championship in 1994. There were some very good scores, and some not some good scores posted. We were the home course for Methodist College (now, Methodist University), and, at the time, they had one of the few PGM programs in the country. They were preparing kids to become Golf Professionals rather than pro golfers. Ron Stockton played as an individual, and I met his dad on the practice green.