Do Your Prospects Want Their Parents With Them On Their Campus Visit?

Walking around your campus with recruit and their parents is a tried and true tradition among college coaches. You might want to rethink that strategy...

The other day in a workshop we were conducting for an athletic department, we pulled up data we had collected from their most recent recruiting class that we felt their coaches needed to see.

This is what we showed them:

Basically, what we’re finding - at this college campus, and around the country for the coaches and departments we work with - is that today’s prospects want some drastic changes to the traditional campus visit that has been a staple on campuses around the country for a long, long time.

One of those longtime traditional ways to conduct a visit revolves around the idea of