What do you do if you cannot find the schools baseball questionnaire. We are in the middle of casting a wide net and can't find a couple of schools questionnaire.
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While most questionnaires are easy enough to find, when my son was doing that piece, there were some that were harder to find. They're not always in the obvious places like the school's baseball page. You'll need to look through every athletic and academic menu/page/sites the school has. Our thinking was, if my son wasn't resourceful enough to find it on his own, how serious could he look to a prospective coach? You can always email a coach and ask for it, but I'd be awfully sure their site was scoured top to bottom before doing so.
A couple alternative hacks you might consider:
1) email a coach from a different sport and ask them where to find it, ha!
2) send a prospective coach your own completed questionnaire. If you're looking at them, you know they all ask 95%+ the same things, so send the coaches the answers in some simple/easily digestible format.
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@Dadof3 posted:What do you do if you cannot find the schools baseball questionnaire. We are in the middle of casting a wide net and can't find a couple of schools questionnaire.
Did you try Googling it? Just Google: "Target College Baseball Recruiting Questionnaire ".
Or you can try this: "site:targetcollege.edu Baseball Recruiting Questionnaire ".
I have and I have searched the entire site...crazy
People have frequently commented that schools use the questionnaires mainly to get email addresses for camp invitations. Why do you feel you need to find this questionnaire? If the baseball coach doesn't make one available, maybe he doesn't want to bother collecting the information. Has he asked you to fill it out?
We didn't fill one out unless requested to do so. They use it for email lists and very rarely for anything else. I don't think a single coach reads what is put on one.
College baseball insights.....
My son saw no evidence that the questionnaires were even seen by the coaching staff. I wonder if they are a tool for sending out emails for money making camps. I wouldn't put a second of worry into it.
Thanks smitty, I didn’t think of that
My son has filled out a couple. The colleges tend to email about getting into the school and registering. No communication from any of the coaches other than the request to fill it out. Seems the colleges use it to gather info and reach out to students about enrolling there. Am I missing something here? Will coaches submit you to admissions without talking to the potential player first?
If you understand the dynamics of college baseball at many levels, it is money. A lot of coaches have requirements to be able to draw their salaries that they have to get so many registered in classes to draw their full salaries, almost a sales position. That is why many teams have jv teams and have 80 plus players. They will give you a $7,500 scholarship so that you pay $30,000 tuition and they get their cut. I do not know of a coach who uses questionnaires except to build their email lists and maybe go back to after they are interested for one thing or another rather than asking the player. I know kids who are attending colleges to "play" baseball that were never seen by the coaching staff. I know a couple at small schools that never actually talked to the coaching staff before they arrived on campus. Parents and players were so excited to get to "play" college ball that they could not see the big red flag flying in their face. One dad said I thought that was the way it was done. We never met the HS coach before son started tried out so I thought that was the norm. Do research on every school and every coach.
But let me also say if a coach asks you to fill one out then fill it out. I just don't know that it does any good to fill one out if not asked other than get you on their email list. If interested, send an email directly to HC and RC. Not one to both but 2 individual ones to each.
The questionnairs actually help the coach to identify a potential player financially as well as academically, especially if an out of state school that cost $$$ every year.
I go with PF. Fill them out. No matter which way you slice it, this is a business. Not only does the coach need to find players that are a good fit for his program, but ones that also can pay tuition.
That makes sense that few coaches would use them for anything other than blowing up their email/address lists for camps and the like. Why did my son fill them out? Because every resource we read online said it was a staple part of the process. It usually went like this 1) fill out the questionnaire and then 2) follow it up with his introductory email to the RC - "I just filled out your questionnaire and..." Buy my son did have a couple targets that he didn't fill out a questionnaire for (for whatever reason), that they replied back and asked him to fill one out. Again, probably for the all wrong reasons, but whatever. Escaping junk emails through the recruiting process makes unicorn hunting look easy. My 2021 committed a year ago but I just got a text this week asking ME if I've already committed and how they'd like to take a look at ME if I am interested. I'm thinking about it. Weighing my options...
We didn't do many questionnaires. Sent a direct email to the coach with pertinent information and if there's stuff that as in other questionnaires that you think should be included, include it.
Someone correct me if I am wrong. Dont they ask for parents occupation, they did when son had to do them and that was a lifetime ago!
I think think this is particularly important for the coaches for the very expensive schools as well as those out of state.
TPM they actually come out and ask for IVY schools: "Sure you can afford it?"
Interesting
One Ivy coach met with me when my son visited the school. He said his job is tough because he's got to find kids that meet 3 criteria - they have to be able to play, they need the grades & scores, and their parents have to be able to afford it. Another Ivy coach said "Ok, his brother is at Princeton so I suppose cost isn't an issue here?"