University of Richmond

Hard to answer about the baseball program since the coach will be leaving after this year. My son is good friends and has played HS and Legion with a few of the players. They seem to like it. In fact his former HS and Legion coach is one of the UR assistant coaches and he is a terrific man.

As far as the school itself, it is supposedly very challenging academically. My nephew is a graduate and he was a very good HS student and said it was tough. One of the coaches told a prospect that they would like for a baseball player to have at least a 3.6 GPA to be considered. Don't know if that's true or not though.

It's a beautiful school and VERY expensive!!!

My son has a good friend at Richmond and it is very hard to get into. This friend had perfect SAT's and he found it hard! I believe you do need at least a 3.6 GPA, maybe higher and yes it is extremely expensive!

When you say 3.6 GPA do you guys mean weighted or unweighted?
What about the level of play?

Goose-
Richmond will have 2 of the best and nicest coaches I've ever met taking over next year. Coach McQueen (head) and Coach Wheeler are both great guys. When I visited there, they were great. Coach McQueen was formerly the pitching coach at Virginia Commonwealth where he coached major league guys like Sean Marshall and Cla Meredith. He was also one of the guys who recruited Sean Casey to Richmond way back. When he takes over the head coaching duties, he'll also be in charge of pitching I believe. I couldn't say enough nice things about either of the two.

As for the school, the campus is beautiful. The school is great. The facilities are good, and they have a very nice locker room. It is however difficult to get into, even with good test scores. However, if you have (total guesses) around a 3.2 (unweighted) to go with around a 30 or higher act, they may be able to get you in.

I have not met the head coach there but this past weekend I met Coach Wheeler who has a wonderful personality and is really easy to talk to, which for a coach is a good quality.

Goose, there are prior threads on this. Do an advanced search on "McQueen" to find them.

Is the Coach Wheeler you are referring to the same Coach Wheeler (Ryan?) who was an assistant coach at William and Mary? If so.....WONDERFUL gentleman!

The very same.

University of Richmond (VA) is the "2nd Most Expensive College" in the United States.

2006/07 Tuition $36,550.00
Room, Board & Fees $6,060.00
+ Books, Supplies etc.

** Ryan Wheeler first year asst. coach 2007.
Former asst. coach at William & Mary (VA) Univ.

http://richmondspiders.cstv.com

www.urich.edu

** And the "Number 1 Most Expensive College"...

George Washington University - Washington, DC

2006/07 Tuition $37,820.00
Room & Board $11,500.00
Books & Supplies $850.00

http://gwsports.cstv.com

www.gwu.edu

It's bad but not quite that bad. There are several others that cost more. Clearly they are among the most expensive private U's, but they are not # 2.

I heard those exact figures for GW on the news yesterday while driving home.

For those readers who are not familiar with private college/university costs, it is safe to say that private school costs are a lot like automobile sticker prices. If you let sticker prices be your criteria, you're probably doing yourself a dis- service. Richmond, like may private schools provide, aid on a needs basis, which until you go through the process, can be totally misunderstood. Privates discount in order to compete, that is in the form of grants, scholarships, etc. Look more closely under the hood at the aid stats at Richmond or GW and know Sure it is tough to get $42,000 down to say 16,000 for an instate school, but you would be very surprised at how close they can come even for folks with what is generally considered to be high family incomes, even 6 figure incomes. So the only way you can find out what you might qualify for is to go through the process. If you're qualified enough to get in, there is likely money of some sort available to help defray the costs and make the choices more interesting. Keep in mind too that baseball parents, particularly first timers, really get their eyes opened on just how little money constitutes a baseball scholarship relative to th cost of the education and just how much they end up absorbing of the total cost. So when you look at out-of-state U and figure that the out of state costs are relatively 2x's the cost of and in state school, you have to get a 50% scholly to make it the same as instate school, and a 50% scholly is a big scholly, even for a fully funded program. so you have to look at privates, like GW and UR most of the A10 schools or ND or Valpo, Villanova, or Furman or Elon, or Liberty, Princeton, any Ivy and consider what your not getting from a public school, in or out of state and then comapre on an apples to apples basis. Eliminating the private school like Richmond right out of the box becaue you assume you don't qualify for aid, could be a foolish mistake

Bottom line --let the school tell you that they cannot make it happen !!!!--Never assume that you are out of the game

My Son and I spent the last three days with McQueen & Wheeler at Richmnond on an official visit.

Very classy gentlemen, solid coaches, would put my son in their hands in a heartbeat and know he would come out a fine person and good ballplayer.

I agree with HaveFun. MOST private colleges and Univ. have more options for money to offset costs than Public univs. Additionally, the tuition cost per student for most privates reflects about half the actual cost of educating that student. The other half comes from endowments and other funds. ALso consider the value of the education in terms of maketability later, class sizes, caliber of teaching staff, facilities, etc. It's a big mistake to assume it's going to be more cost effective to attend a public college. Just find the best fit for your kid and let the other factors take care of themselves. You may be surprised.

does anyone think the new coaches will continue richmonds trend of recruiting from the northeast? thats one of the things that made me like this school because many of their students seem to come from their and they were rare in that being in the "south" they still recruit from the NE so whats your take on that???

Being that Wheeler is from PA and a Penn State grad, and they recruited my son from the Midwest, I would think that both of them are very open to recruiting outside their southern zone.

I don't know about Richmond but I do know that GW gives you a price as a freshman and that is what you pay for the four years. You definitely pay more upfront but it evens out in the end with other private schools. (Of course my daughter has decided to attend GW so I spend alot of time rationalizing that it isn't as expensive as it looks.)