What Is Choose It Right?

Choose It Right is a web-based, college search and selection system that not only helps student-athletes and their families find the right college that best fits their unique academic, athletic and financial criteria, but it also provides the necessary tools to help student-athletes stand out from their peers in the recruiting process.

How Can Choose It Right Help Me?

At Choose It Right, we recommend that you first identify a list of at least 50 colleges that match your preferences. Then, as early as your freshman year in high school, we recommend that you contact the coaches for your sport at each of the colleges on your top match list.

Choose It Right’s proven college search and selection system provides all the tools that you need, including: a Smart College Report (includes up to 50 colleges, or more); college coaches’ contact information; email letter series for contacting them; an online profile for making a great first impression when reaching out to coaches, progress tracker and Step-by-Step How-To Videos to help guide you through the college search, selection and recruiting process.

By taking advantage of this all-in-one system, you’ll be sure to not only find your list of top match colleges instantly, but also successfully connect with coaches at each college and make a great impression when reaching out to them, giving you the best chance of getting on to their recruiting lists!

Who Uses the Smart College Report?

Student-athletes and their families use the Smart College Report as their own personalized college selection guide which includes all the information they need to help choose the right college.

Here are some of the many features and benefits of the Smart College Report and built-in recruiting tools, which help you achieve the goal of playing your sport at the college level:

• Simplifies the college search process for student-athletes and their families;
• Provides you with numerous resources and information instantaneously with just the click of a button, saving you and your family over 100 hours of time researching colleges;
• Matches you with colleges based upon your specific academic and/or sports-related preferences;
• Shows you a side-by-side comparison of each college based on tuition, ACT/SAT scores, enrollment size, average academic and athletic scholarships and more; 
• Provides student-athletes an Administrative Directory with detailed contact information for college admissions officers, as well as a letter template with smart subject line for contacting them;
• Provides student-athletes an Athletic Directory with detailed contact information for college coaches, as well as a series of letter templates with smart subject lines for contacting them;
• Explains the Post College 1:1 Ratio, which helps you determine how much is a responsible amount to borrow, based on your expected first year’s salary after graduating college;
• Helps you to determine how much you should actually pay for college;
• Helps you to understand the current and future ramifications of taking out financial aid/student loan debt;
• Generates a customizable academic and athletic profile with downloadable PDF and Online Profile (your own website) to showcase photos, videos, stats and schedules – which helps you make a great impression with college coaches;
• Equips you with Step-by-Step How-to Videos - providing you with an Athletic Roadmap for each year of high school; Interview Prep videos that help you prepare for conversations with college coaches; videos on How to Create an Athletic Performance video, and more;
• Offers a Progress Tracking tool that helps you keep track of communications with college coaches;
• Provides you with “done-for-you” services where you will receive everything from a targeted list of college choices that match your preferences to helpful information about financial aid, choosing an academic major, and more; and
• Gives you a “family based” approach to college by enabling your family to be involved in the decision-making process.

How Can I Fund My College Education?

In addition to paying for college out-of-pocket, through student loans or via academic and athletic scholarships, Choose It Right recommends considering private scholarships to help fund your higher education.

Choose It Right provides the ability for you to easily search and apply for private scholarships, with over 4,000 scholarship providers and $11+ billion in scholarship awards available.

Where Do I Start?

No matter if you’re just starting the college search, selection and recruiting process, or you’ve been working on it already, the Smart College Report and related services are your personal road map to making the right decisions about your future.

Click the Buy Now button below, choose the package for a student-athlete that best fits you, then simply fill out the easy-to-follow questionnaire with your preferences, and access your Smart College Report and built-in recruiting tools instantly!