Making The Right Choice For College Just Got Easier

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Choosing a college to attend is always a stressful time. Sometimes you get to college for move in day and wonder, “did I make the right choice?” Luckily, cheerleading camp can serve as your official visit, and gives the full college experience. While at camp, you sleep in the dorms, eat at the dining hall, walk around campus, and get to use the facilities for cheer camp during the day. This gives great insight to everyday college life, and paints a realistic picture as to what attending that school would be like.
I wish I had attended camp at a university while in high school. When I got to college, it was a whole new experience for me, and I later realized that the college I had chosen was not the right fit for me. If I had attended cheer camp there, I would have had a better understanding of what that university was like, rather than just taking an hour long tour. Use your camp experience as your official visit. If you are interested in cheering at that particular school, this is the perfect opportunity to meet the coach, find out what practices are like, where you would be practicing, etc. If you don’t love practicing there for camp, just imagine dedicating your entire college career to practicing there. Who knows, maybe some of the staff working that camp are cheerleaders there! Put yourself in the shoes of a cheerleader at that school and examine if that program is right for you. It will save you time, credit hours, and money in the long run if you do your research before you set foot on campus for your first day of classes. Don’t wait until it is too late – start researching today!
-Tayler Easton

 

[Ashley]

Are we talking high school camps like NCA/UCA? I went to camp every summer and none of the camps were at any of the colleges I had ever considered for college (and I stayed local).

Plus, staying on campus for a camp doesn't tell you anything except how good the food in the cafeteria is, how nice that one gym is, and how nice that one dorm is (they could have very different styles of dorms). Staying on a dead campus in the summer doesn't tell you anything about the personality of the student body, what activities there are, how far away your classes are, etc. All of the actually important factors to consider when selecting a college.

 

[DaniV]

I completely agree! I was a UCA instructor so I've stayed at colleges all over the northwest/west coast area and there is no way I would ever base my college choices off of those camps... even if the food is terrible or the dorms suck, there are other ways to fix those problems and much larger priorities to consider - like the educational aspect.

 

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Choosing a college to attend is always a stressful time. Sometimes you get to college for move in day and wonder, “did I make the right choice?” Luckily, cheerleading camp can serve as your official visit, and gives the full college experience. While at camp, you sleep in the dorms, eat at the dining hall, walk around campus, and get to use the facilities for cheer camp during the day. This gives great insight to everyday college life, and paints a realistic picture as to what attending that school would be like.
I wish I had attended camp at a university while in high school. When I got to college, it was a whole new experience for me, and I later realized that the college I had chosen was not the right fit for me. If I had attended cheer camp there, I would have had a better understanding of what that university was like, rather than just taking an hour long tour. Use your camp experience as your official visit. If you are interested in cheering at that particular school, this is the perfect opportunity to meet the coach, find out what practices are like, where you would be practicing, etc. If you don’t love practicing there for camp, just imagine dedicating your entire college career to practicing there. Who knows, maybe some of the staff working that camp are cheerleaders there! Put yourself in the shoes of a cheerleader at that school and examine if that program is right for you. It will save you time, credit hours, and money in the long run if you do your research before you set foot on campus for your first day of classes. Don’t wait until it is too late – start researching today!
-Tayler Easton

What a great place to reasearch, College Cheer Guide - Home! The ONLY collegiate cheerleading website that is DIRECTLY connected to collegiate cheerleading coaches. Check out College Cheer Guide - Home today!

 

[Jess_Pascale]

Last year my high school went to a UCA stunt camp which never mentioned cheerleading in college.