Eva Dodds - Root College Advising

Eva, Holly, Meegan, Hannah, Heidi, Angela. We get to work in person & online w students from everywhere! Based in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Sacramento

[Brian Watkins Jr '27 @bwat_x1]

After a great talk with @CoachCodyCraw I’m extremely blessed to have received my 2nd offer from @BlufftonFB
@CranbrookFball @CoachMDGreen @MichFBFrenzy @MIexposure @PrepRedzoneMI @RallyPreps

[TCU Admission @TCUAdmission]

Taking this #NationalSmileDay to remind everyone that #TCU is ranked #1 in Happiest Students and in case you didn't know. 🐸

[Charles Fogle ‘27 @charles_fogle08]

After an Amazing visit to @CarletonFB I’m blessed to receive my first 🅾️ffer! Huge thanks to coach @rexdesso15 @AB_Balogh21 and @CoachJournell!!!

@CoachMDGreen @CoachIanBurgess @CranbrookFball @PFC_Football @COACH_PAPAS

[Brandon Folsom @folsomwrites]

Recruiting stock rising for Cranbrook football's Anthony Warchuck (@CoachMDGreen, @AnthonyWarchuck) https://t.co/6KF4tmUcOi

[Anthony Warchuck @AnthonyWarchuck]

After talking to Coach Bell and Burgess Im thankful to have received my 2nd offer to play football at Calvin University!! Go knights! @CoachMDGreen @MIexposure @sixstarfootball

[MSU @michiganstateu]

When you're Sparty, you get to wear the boots at graduation to reveal your secret identity.

Congrats, John, Noah and Mitch! Thanks for representing the Green and White so well.

[Eva Dodds - Root College Advising @AdvisorEva]

Lots of thoughts on this.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why parents pay $25,000 a year for youth sports their kid will never play professionally, because the math is more interesting than the headlines suggest.

The $25K is buying admissions arbitrage at elite colleges. Run it both ways.

Scholarship math first. The US has 8 million high school athletes. Roughly 7% play in college, 2% at D1. Total NCAA athletic scholarship spend is $3.6 billion across about 175,000 D1 athletes, mostly partial aid in the low teens per year. A family putting in $25K annually from age 6 to 18 spends $300K chasing a maximum return of about $80K. The expected value is a lottery ticket.

Admissions math second.

The SFFA v. Harvard trial disclosed that recruited athletes get admitted at 86%. The non-athlete rate sits around 5%. Even academically weak applicants jump to a 98% admit probability if recruited. A non-athlete with a 1397 SAT has roughly 0.08% odds at Harvard. The same kid recruited for crew has 70%+. The athletic hook is the largest single advantage in elite admissions, bigger than legacy or dean's list. Ivies don't even offer athletic scholarships. The value is purely the admissions ticket.

This is what $25K buys. Year-round travel ball is the qualifier round for an admissions process operating on different rules than the one your kid's classmates compete in. The "country club sports" pipeline (squash, lacrosse, crew, fencing, golf) is a feature. Barrier to entry is the product. 90% of Ivy League squash players come from $30K-a-year private high schools. The math works because the alternative pool is small.

PE arrived after the demand existed. Unrivaled Sports, Perfect Game, regional travel-ball roll-ups. Upper-middle-class parents had already turned youth sports into a class transmission mechanism. PE consolidated the supply chain and raised prices because the buyers were already there at $25K.

$300K to convert a 4% admit rate at an Ivy into an 86% one. Plus the alumni network and pre-professional sorting that follows. That's the actual equation.

The trade is rational at the top of the income distribution. Brutal everywhere else.

[Anthony Warchuck @AnthonyWarchuck]

After a great conversation with Coach @Coach_Ogbu, Im thankful to recieve my first division 1 offer to play at Long Island University!! @CoachMDGreen @AllenTrieu @CranbrookFball @TheD_Zone

[Connecticut College @ConnCollege]

Helix is a pre-orientation program that gives students registered with the Student Accessibility Services (SAS) extra to settle into campus life before the start of their first year at #ConnCollege.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/Lvx1B9QDzW

[TCU Admission @TCUAdmission]

What is on-campus housing like at TCU? Get a full recap of our Real Talk livestream with Housing & Residence Life's Craig Allen — residence halls, applications and more. https://t.co/iGDa37tsE1

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

MIT students got bored on a Saturday night and turned an entire building into a playable game of Tetris, rigging every window with LEDs at midnight.

These kids are going to run the world and we should let them.

[Brown Daily Herald @the_herald]

The Herald analyzed incoming first-year admissions data from 2004 to 2024 using the University’s publicly available common data sets. Here's what we found.

https://t.co/RqWCpQKFiV

[GVSU FB Recruiting @GVSU_FBRecruits]

Great seeing future Lakers on campus the past few weekends for Junior Day!
(Even the ones we didn’t offer) 😉

Sign up with the link below to EARN your offer!

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#WAWG | 🪓🪵

[Charles Fogle ‘27 @charles_fogle08]

Had a great visit @BrownU_Football top notch facilities and athletics. Big thanks to @CoachPDeCapito and coach @CoachW_Edwards! Excited to be back in providence for camp this summer!

@CranbrookFball @CoachMDGreen @CoachIanBurgess @BrownHCPerry @CoachEMorrissey @PFC_Football

[Anthony Warchuck @AnthonyWarchuck]

Won MVP of the pylon Indianapolis after going undefeated!! SMSB 18u Gold 🏆🏆@AllenTrieu @CoachMDGreen @smsbacademy @TheD_Zone

[UCLA Admission @UCLAAdmission]

Admission decisions for first-year applicants are now available through the myApplication Status site! Congratulations and welcome to our newest Bruins! 💙 🐻 💛 #UCLABOUND

[Eva Dodds - Root College Advising @AdvisorEva]

Joyce Ivy Foundation Workshop: https://t.co/K3pqfdIa1u

[Eva Dodds - Root College Advising @AdvisorEva]

ROOT is proud to be part of this offering to Detroit area families. Please find the link to more info in the comments. #collegeessays #financialaid #casestudyworkshop #collegeadmissions officers.

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

American colleges were already worried about falling international enrollments. The decline in new student visas is worse than we thought. https://t.co/i8kt309X9c

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"Today everybody wants to talk about their rights and their privileges.
50 years ago, people talked about their obligation and responsibility.
You have obligations to other people.
If you want to fail, you have the right to fail.
You do not have the right to cause other people to fail because you do not do everything to the very best of your ability."