|
Definitions
Below are the definitions of various terms that are used throughout beRecruited:
An athlete's profile becomes an approved profile when the athlete's high school or club coach reviews it for accuracy and approves it. This can be revoked by the approving coach at any time. While being approved doesn't ensure it's 100% accurate, it does show that the athlete's coach reviewed it and felt that the athlete was making a fair representation of their academic and athletic abilities.
This athlete has changed their profile status to COMMITTED. It's important to understand that athlete commitments are self-reported by the athletes' themselves and as such, are unverified. All committed athletes will have a note giving further details such as the date when the user updated their profile status and where they will be attending college. Visit our Athlete Commitments page for a detailed list of committed athletes.
Connections
Connections represent the total number of athlete coach connections that have been made which are defined as any action that helps an athlete and coach to connect. Examples of these connecetions are: a coach viewing an athlete's profile, a coach receiving an autonotification about an athlete or a coach receiving a letter-of-interest (or profile invite) from an athlete. This is different from just profile views or even coach views since it's really about how many unique connections are made. So if a coach views an athlete's profile 10 times we really have only made 1 connection.
Other than tracking, having a higher number of connections never hurts you, but it's not necessarily indicative.
The majority of beRecruited's services are 100% free for athletes. There are additional features to increase an athlete's exposure as part of our Deluxe Account. This additional exposure helps athletes who upgrade to deluxe receive, on average, 3 times the interest from college coaches when compared to other athletes on beRecruited. Some of the other benefits of a Deluxe Account include: being able to see coaches who have viewed your profile and our Letter-of-Interest Generator. LEARN MORE ABOUT UPGRADING TO DELUXE
Letter of Recommendation
High school and club coaches can choose to write a letter of recommendation for any athlete they are currently associated with to help college coaches in the recruiting process. These coaches first have to be registered users and connected to the athlete's profile before they can write a letter of recommendation. College coaches should use these letters as one additional data point when evaluating a potential recruit and shouldn't read too much into one recommendation. beRecruited urges college coaches to talk to any athlete's coaches directly in person or via phone to get a more comprehensive assessment of an athlete's ability.
According to the NCAA all prospective student-athletes intending to enroll in an NCAA Division I or II institution for the first time on or after August 1, 2007 must complete the NCAA Amateurism Certification questionnaire from the NCAA Eligibility Center. If you intend to play at the NCAA Division I or II level beRecruited highly recommends completing the NCAA Eligibility questionnaire sometime during fall of your senior year. LEARN MORE
Private & Public Profiles
Both private and public profiles limit the depth of information you can see about a particular user. For example, unless you are a college coach or an athlete's high school or club coach you aren't able to see sensitive information about the athlete such as their contact information, SAT, GPA, etc. A private profile takes it one-step further and you are not able to see any of the athlete's profile unless you are a registered coach. The vast majority of the users choose to have a public profile that allows any athletic statistics, photos, video clips or blog posts they might have added to their account to be shown to the public.
Views
There are two types of views. Coach Views represents the total number of times a registered coach has viewed the profile. There can be numerous profile views from a single coach. The total views represents the total number of times a profile was viewed by anyone whether they are or are not registered with beRecruited.
|
|
