Attaching Resume instead of filling out Questionaire

Hi Aleebaba,

First off don't return any questionnaires from the Texas schools. Just kidding.

We made a copy of the first questionnaire and used the information off it on to the next one, only takes a few moments. Most schools are asking the same information.

Oh and by the way, make sure to list you and the Mrs. as former D1 athletes. Good luck.

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I started wondering whether I could just prepare a single resume, and send that to school. Do you guys think that is disrespectful?

I don't know about disrespectful, but how do you feel when you get a form letter from a school? Probably like you aren't that important to them (yet anyways)?

Might be that they would see it the same way as you would?

Do one questionnaire every other day or something like that...they will get easier as you go along.

they usequestionnaires for a reason---it keeps them from reading hundreds of non uniform pieces of paper

most coaches are creatures of habit, I know that I am

Good answers, but keep im mind that it's probably more or less like a job application. There's certain info they need to enter into their database.

From my understanding many HC coaches don't even see them, the info is often read by the recruiter, or assistant coach and then entered for future reference. Most staffs are current in their use of computers and software they use as well as invoved in social networking. I recently told a parent to contact a coach by email, and I got a response thanking me from the HC for the contact... on FB!

I agree with responding with the questionaire, PUHD is correct that most are the same, once you do one you can do a few each day, and by you I mean not "you", but your son, with your assistance. Set a time each week to sit down together, it doesn't take long.

The best advice is create a master sheet with all the info that is asked on the questionnaire....if you get ask for new info on a questionnaire then add that to your master list. It can get time consuming but if your son sets time aside each week it will not be overbearing.

We were told to respnd to every request for a questionnaire to be filled out even if you are not interested in that school because you never know where a coach might end up. I look at, like fishing...the more times you cast your line..the more opportnunity to catch a fish.

Now that is all over, I wish that I had could have that time back....back then sometimes it seemed like a chore sitting down with him to go through the requests..now I would love to have the time with him again....so enjoy the process!

TPM
I do believe that your understanding is erroneous--- folks keep in mind that recruiting coordinators that are ssists climbing the ladder and tend to move on every year or so taking thier puter files with them when they depart

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Originally posted by TRhit:
TPM
I do believe that your understanding is erroneous--- folks keep in mind that recruiting coordinators that are ssists climbing the ladder and tend to move on every year or so taking thier puter files with them when they depart

Whatever you say coach!

For some reason I just can't see Kevin O'Sullivan leaving Clemson and taking the recruiting files, can you?

if they are on his puter I can especially if he has info on a stud

So now that you say we need to fill each one out seperately, do you agree we should put school requesting information at top of list of "top schools," if asked.

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Originally posted by TRhit:
if they are on his puter I can especially if he has info on a stud

First, yes. Fill out the questionnaires. We didn't have SO many college one's because of early commit, but son has had questionnaires from every MLB team, and we just made a notebook with copies of each one, so as he got a new questionnaire, he could just pull out the notebook as a reference.

I don't think you necessarily have to put that school as #1, but I'd probably put them in the top five.

As a 2015 parent I would like to get my hands on one or a few of these questionnaires to help in planning the next four years. If you know what info is being sought we can make sure we have been there and done that by the time inquiring minds want to know. What other things do they ask for besides Ball stats, height/weight, grades and test scores?

Go to the school that you are interested in. (their athletic/baseball website) Click on prospective athlete (or something similar) and you can find the questionnaire. Some schools prefer that you submit info electronically, others send the printed questionnaires. Either way works. A few times my son wanted to change an answer on a printed questionnaire, so he just printed one off the school's website and did over.

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...do you agree we should put school requesting information at top of list of "top schools," if asked.

IMO, not if it is absolutely untrue. In cases where we needed to learn a bit more about the school (i.e., not on top of list at that time), we put "TBD" or "D1." Some schools that got that answer still ended end up recruiting our sons.

In my view, there's a little too much value being put in these questionnaires by some of the comments on this thread. My sense through 2 sons was that they just weren't that critical other than for academic filtering or for populating a database as a reference for the coaches down the line.

The things that were quoted back to us when schools got to our son(s) with serious interest were the personal emails/letters that our son(s) may have sent...and very often they barely seemed to (or didn't) know they had a questionnaire on file anyways. The schools that our sons ended up at were told in a personal way (email, letter, phone call) very early on that they were at/near the top of the list...and in fact they were.

Justbaseball, I agree. I felt like questionnaires were simply a way to populate the camp data bases! My son never even filled them out for two of the three schools he is deciding between right now.

I think they get you on a list but beyond that it's more personal communication and watching you play.

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Originally posted by justbaseball:

The things that were quoted back to us when schools got to our son(s) with serious interest were the personal emails/letters that our son(s) may have sent...and very often they barely seemed to (or didn't) know they had a questionnaire on file anyways. The schools that our sons ended up at were told in a personal way (email, letter, phone call) very early on that they were at/near the top of the list...and in fact they were.

Every communication with a coaching staff is an opportunity for the player to put himself in front of the coaches. Since questionnaires tend to come relatively early in the process, the player is given an opening to not only send his data; but also some personal statement about his level of interest in playing college baseball (or, if appropriate, about his specific interest in the school whose questionnaire is being returned).

This also suggests that it is the player who ought to be doing this. It's a lot easier for coaches to believe in a player's desire to commit themselves to the rigors of their program and their school if it's apparent that it's the player who's invested time in the recruiting process. Coaches recruit players; not parents.

I was anxious to see your comments on this Prepster as I figured (correctly) that you would have one of the very best insights.

The importance of filling these out is probably dependant on how good the player is. If your boy is a big time D-1 prospect, he can just sit back and wait for offers pretty much. My son is nowhere near that, so he did a bunch.

I think filling out the online questionaires is a good thing and shows you have interest in the program. Once you have done one, it doesnt take long to do the rest. I think it was on of the days right before my 2013 started his junior year, he did about 20 of them. He hit up every D-1, D-2 and NAIA school in Missouir and some D-1 in surrounding states. I came home from work and had them all printed out and asked me to help put them in a binder. I thought it could be overkill, but, hey, he took initiative.

Granted, he has received a bunch of camp invites, and you know they really have no interest yet, but he gets a kick out of seeing schools sending him email anyway.

He has gotten two reponses that were related to the questionaire. First was in September where a coach forwarded some random email he gets when a player fills out the questionaire. He said he saw him this summer, talked to his high school coach about him and will be looking to watch him this coming season. The other was after a showcase this December where a coach emailed about his performance. He thanked my son for having the questionaire already and that he would be watching.

So to me, from these two schools, it seemed they like the fact that my son took the initiative and filled out the questionaire before they asked for it.

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Originally posted by TRhit:
they usequestionnaires for a reason---it keeps them from reading hundreds of non uniform pieces of paper

most coaches are creatures of habit, I know that I am

This was my first reaction as well.

They have databases that help expedite the recruiting process, and usually those are powered by the questionnaires. I'd hate to be left off the mailing list or entirely not noticed because I didn't fill out the questionnaire.

I usually would fill out the questionnaire and follow up with personal email. If you don't do the questionnaire, they usually ask you to do that very quickly. I don't see the harm in attaching a resume to your personal email if you think that is important.

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Originally posted by mcmmccm:
As a 2015 parent I would like to get my hands on one or a few of these questionnaires to help in planning the next four years. If you know what info is being sought we can make sure we have been there and done that by the time inquiring minds want to know. What other things do they ask for besides Ball stats, height/weight, grades and test scores?

Keep in mind that while the player can submit info at any time, the school can only contact them when allowed.

So as a 2015 if you submit that info your player goes into the database for that year. I imagine the database can be used by sorting out by year, state, position, etc.

I doubt very much in this day and age that they keep the questionaires in a filing cabinet. This is 2012.

This was about sending out resume, most likely they will send out the questionaire to follow, so you might be doing double work. Keep it simple, JMO.

Be honest and name top schools that are a condsideration, even if it's not them.

tpm

they still have to read the questionnares before thry enter them in the data basei it certainly expedites the process if all the forms are identical


and yes this is 2012

I'm thinking that's what the office staff does, enter the questionnaires in the data base. I picture a card board box in the corner of an office with piles of hand written questionnaires. I would always fill it out on line rather then depend on it actually getting entered in.

If you have one sent to you, fill it out on line and print it out and return so you cover both bases.

Double play if you will