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The value of athletics beyond recruitment
Why top colleges still value sports even if your student isn’t formally recruited
Three primary athletic pathways
A breakdown of the most common paths successful applicants take
Inside holistic review
How admissions officers interpret athletic experience within a broader application
Step-by-step guidance by grade (middle school through 11th
How to avoid common pitfalls and capitalize on key athletic opportunities at every stage
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Emily has spent nearly 20 years of her professional life in college admissions, both as an admissions officer and a college counselor. She’s logged stints evaluating applications at UC San Diego, the University of San Diego, and Rutgers University, as well as worked as a college counselor at the district level for Poway Unified School District and as co-director of college counseling at La Jolla Country Day School. This experience on both sides of the desk—and both sides of the country—has helped her successfully guide students to a wide variety of schools ranging from the most highly selective colleges like Yale, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, the University of Chicago, Wellesley, and Carnegie Mellon, to larger public universities like the University of Washington and both the UC and Cal State systems, to Catholic schools such as Villanova and the University of San Francisco.
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Andrew Disney has over a decade of experience in higher education, supporting students across admissions, athletics, and academic advising. Before joining Collegewise, he served as an NCAA Compliance Officer at three Division I universities, where he helped recruited student-athletes navigate NCAA eligibility requirements alongside the college admissions process. He later joined the admissions team at the USC Marshall School of Business before moving into an academic staff role at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Andrew holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and West Virginia University and completed UCLA’s College Counseling Certificate Program.
