We Help You Find Your 360° College Fit
Our 5A College Search Model
We provide every College Athletic Advisor student with an action plan for to meet your goals for success in college and beyond! We base our program on the “Five A’s” outlined below (different packages provide different levels of support to meet YOUR needs):
Assessment
- Guided self-assessment of educational, co-curricular, career, financial, and other priorities that will allow you to identifying schools where you will thrive!
- Collaborative research to identify aspirational schools, and the development of a list appropriate to your college search and timeline.
- Meaningful discussion and in-depth examination of schools and individual academic and co-curricular programs to find your potential best “fit” institutions.
Alignment
- Developing and refining your academic and athletic resume to match the recruitment/admissions profile of your best fit aspirational colleges. Making a four-year academic course plan that will prepare you to reach you goals.
- Building your 360º resume including service, athletics, and other interests that show you as a well-rounded contributor in your local communities.
- Leveraging your community involvement and positive influence on your world in ways that show progressive leadership growth in serving others and being a positive part of your community.
Adjustment
- Assessing your current academic performance, identifying any “gaps” where performance may limit your preferred options going forward and working to eliminate them.
- Developing your "brand" as an athlete through enhanced training, strategic participation in recruiting events, social media brand building, targeted communication with coaches, meaningful opportunities for outside competition that enhance your recruiting visibility and other steps to align your performance with your goals.
- Planning college visits to assess your college choices, refining academic and athletic plans as you better understand your opportunities and priorities. Continuing adjustment of your college list based on your ongoing academic and athletic success.
Application
- Preparing application materials for schools and financial aid programs, FAFSA/common app/etc. including identifying your advocates who can serve as references and providing them with updated resumes that highlight your achievements, making sure you clearly communicate why you are a great fit to your target colleges.
- Filling out common app, completing supplemental essays, turning in all relevant materials and completing FAFSA/CSS Profile/State specific (i.e. Washboard, Cal Grant, HESAA, etc.) applications as appropriate.
- Preparing for getting the most out of admissions/alumni interviews. Tracking applications to make sure each is completed and gets the best possible consideration for both admission and financial aid. Strategizing Early Decision/Early Action as opposed to regular decision applications and prioritizing schools.
Attendance
- Facilitating final decision making
- choosing a school once accepted
- making post-acceptance visits
- competing in accepted student scholarship programs
- finalizing costs, awards, and payment plans with the college’s financial aid office.
- Paying deposits, arranging housing and planning for attendance.
- Remembering that all of this opens the door, it is not an end in and of itself and dedicating yourself to thriving academically, emotionally, and socially at your chosen college!
Meet Dave Morris
An educator, administrator, and coach with experience at every NCAA level, high school, and in elite sport clubs, College Athletic Advisor's College Counselor & CEO provides insight and understanding of intercollegiate athletics and the recruiting landscape for prospective student-athletes is truly unique.
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The "Find Your Fit" Assessment
Our Find Your College Fit tool will identify colleges where you can thrive academically, athletically, and socially. Use our Find Your College Fit assessment to identify great fit programs that match your priorities academically and athletically!
- Where do you want to be? Not just in terms of a place on the map, but the qualities of those places.
- What academic programs/environmental aspects are important to you?
- What about playing on a team? Other co-curricular opportunities?
This 10 - 15 minute assessment will provide you a personalized response with three college recommendations within 48 hours.