Shortlist U helps a family track college recruiting for a soccer, volleyball, gymnastics, or track and field athlete - NCAA eligibility, courses and grades, ID camps, coach contacts, and cost, all in one place, with a year-by-year recruiting checklist to keep track of it all through high school.
Cost, academics, roster spots, coach contact - tell what matters.
The full four-year recruiting checklist - rules cited to the NCAA's own guide, plus grades, per-school tasks and camp timing - now lives in its own tab.
| School | Division | Conference | State | City | Tuition (in) | Tuition (out) | Cost of Attend. (in-state) | Cost of Attend. (out-of-state) | Academic (est.) | Median Earnings (10yr) | Median Grad Debt | % Earning >$25k | Roster | Program Spend | Div. schol. cap (ceiling, not award) | Top Majors | Coach | Title | Phone | Program Page |
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* Division scholarship cap, NCAA Division I rows: this is the pre-2025-07-01 ceiling. Per ncaa.org's roster-limit page (linked in ), it no longer binds D1 schools that opted into the House settlement - the number is still shown because a family still needs the ceiling.
An ID camp is a tryout a college program runs (or co-runs) so its coaches watch you play in person - not a generic clinic. Families pay for a direct look from recruiting staff, not a highlight video they might never watch. Below, Confirmed cards have a date and price checked directly; Listed cards are unconfirmed - treat the date as a starting point and verify before you book.
Set your minimums here, then head over to . That is where these become a ranked list you can pin schools on, compare side by side, and pull coach contacts from. reads these too. Turn "Your priorities" on there and pins drop to just the schools that clear your minimums - the fastest way to see whether you have asked for more than exists.
Every Rule line is cited to the NCAA's own guide; every Common practice line is not a rule, just what most families end up doing.
How often does your school report grades?
Six-week school, six columns. Changing this never deletes a grade you already typed.
What this GPA is actually worth: Soccer money is almost always partial, not a full ride.
The old rule we used to print here was dropped by the NCAA in 2025. See for what replaced it, and ask the school's own compliance office how it applies to you.
Grades and habits come before any outreach
Get on coaches' radar - video out, emails sent
Separate real interest from polite interest
Decide well, and close every door politely
Nothing pinned yet. Pin a few schools and each becomes one row with:
Things we could not source and will not guess:
We also could not find a source that publishes early-application deadlines per school in a form this page can hold offline - see the schools section above for a search link instead of a guess.
What we can tell you is that the binding signing happens in senior year (p.29) and the process usually starts in 11th grade (p.27).
Each link has one line saying why you care, where it came from, and when we checked it. A date on this page that nobody verified is exactly what we are trying not to ship - if we could not confirm something, it says so instead of guessing.
NCAA eligibility and your school's approved course list
The one office that decides whether they can practise, compete, or take athletic aid at a D1 or D2 school.
This is the account to make now, and it is free. NCAA's own site: "If you want to play at or make an official visit to a Division I or II school, you need to create a Certification account." The Profile Page keeps them in the system without certifying them - that is the point at 13.
The paid account for later, for D1 or D2. $110 in the US, territories and Canada; $170 everywhere else. The page states plainly: "No refunds will be given due to nonparticipation or disinterest at an NCAA school."
Could not fully verify: the domestic fee is reported elsewhere to have risen from $100 to $110 effective September 1, 2025 - that change is search-sourced, not confirmed on the page itself. Confirm the current fee on the page before you pay.
The athletics-only version, used for a D3 international review.
Fee waiver: qualifying categories reported (free/reduced lunch, an SAT/ACT fee waiver, USDA income guidelines, SSI/SNAP, GEAR UP/TRIO/Upward Bound, public housing, foster care, homelessness) are requested inside the Certification account's Payment section and then confirmed by the high school counselor through the High School Portal.
Could not verify on the primary page: NCAA's own help-desk article returned empty to every fetch attempt on 2026-08-16. This list is search-snippet-sourced only.
This is where you find out whether their actual courses count. Health and Yearbook do not.
Opened in a real browser 2026-08-18 and confirmed by eye: the page is titled "High School Search" and gives you two ways in - a six-digit High School Code or a CEEB/ACT code, OR a state / city / school-name search if you do not know either. The state dropdown defaults to ALL. The earlier "browser too old" warning on this item was OUR problem, not yours: an automated fetcher trips a legacy user-agent gate that a normal browser never sees.
The NCAA portal above asks for this code. Worked example, verified against the school's own published PDF profile: Carroll Senior High School, Southlake TX is 442963.
16 core courses: English 4, Math (Algebra I or higher) 3, Science 2, one additional English/Math/Science 1, Social Science 2, additional 4. Verbatim: "Earn a Minimum 2.3 Core Course GPA." Also verbatim: "Ten of your core courses (7 in English, math, or science)" must be done before the seventh semester starts.
16 core courses: English 3, Math 2, Science 2, one additional English/Math/Science 3, Social Science 2, additional 4. Verbatim: "Earn a Minimum 2.2 Core Course GPA."
Verbatim: "Division III schools set their own admissions and academic standards." There is no NCAA core-course GPA gate here, and (separately, on the aid page) "Division III schools do not offer athletics scholarships." Neither of those is a problem to apologize for - D3, D2, NAIA, and JUCO are normal outcomes for these families, not consolation prizes.
No sliding scale: the current D1 and D2 pages above show a flat GPA floor and no test-score chart. That is a real change from years past - secondary sources date the permanent removal to the 2023-24 school year.
Could not verify: no dated ncaa.org press release confirming the exact removal date was found. The date is secondary-sourced; the absence of the chart is confirmed directly on the primary pages.
A different set of rules, and a normal outcome, not a consolation. Incoming freshmen meet 2 of 3: ACT 18 or SAT 970 (EBRW+Math, tests on or after May 1 2019; NAIA code 9876); overall unweighted high-school GPA 2.0; top half of the graduating class. That 2.0 is the WHOLE transcript, unweighted - a different number from the NCAA core-course GPA this page calculates above. Do not compare them directly.
Linked directly to play.mynaia.org - the old playnaia.org address is unreliable. Checked .
SAT and ACT - registering, and free practice
NCAA D1 and D2 do NOT require an SAT or ACT score for initial athletic eligibility, for students enrolling full-time on or after August 1, 2023 - confirmed by reading NCAA's own compliance PDFs directly (the D2 2026-27 Summary of NCAA Regulations lists only graduation plus a 2.200 core GPA over 16 core units and names no test score; the D1 2024-25 Summary's academic standards section likewise names none). This is the ATHLETIC eligibility rule only - individual colleges still set their own admissions requirements and some still want a score.
Could not verify: eligibilitycenter.org itself would not load on 2026-08-16 (certificate error), and a 2026-27 D1 compliance PDF was not located - the D1 read above is of the 2024-25 edition. Confirm at ncaa.org before you rely on it.
Where you sign up.
Digital only now, in the Bluebook app, not paper. Reading and Writing: 54 questions, 64 minutes. Math: 44 questions, 70 minutes. 98 questions total, 2 hours 14 minutes. Section-adaptive - module 2's difficulty depends on how module 1 went.
The familiar 400-1600 scale is corroborated elsewhere but was not restated on this specific page - labelled here as such.
$68 base. Late registration $38. Test-center change $34. Cancel by deadline $34. Late cancel $44.
Fees and dates reset every year. Confirm at the link before you pay or register.
Free, but ONLY for 11th and 12th graders - a 9th or 10th grader never qualifies regardless of income. Worth knowing now so it does not turn into a wasted phone call later.
Genuinely free, built with College Board.
Genuinely free, and it is the same app you will take the real test in. Four free full-length adaptive practice SATs.
Taken in school. Fall 2026 in-school window is October 1-30, 2026, exact day set by the school. Around $18, and many schools pay it - ask the counselor. Only the 11th-grade sitting counts for National Merit; PSAT 10, the same test given in 10th-grade spring, is diagnostic only.
Where you sign up, and the account you'll use every time after.
$70.00 base (English/Math/Reading composite). Science add-on +$5.00 ($75 total). Writing add-on +$25.00 ($95 total). Both add-ons +$100.00 total. Late registration $42. Change fee $49.
An automated read of this same page returned different numbers on an earlier attempt the same day. Check the price on the page before you pay. Fees and dates reset every year.
11th and 12th grade only, US-based. Covers up to 2 registrations including add-ons, plus a year of the official self-paced course.
Free full-length practice tests, QuizMe, question of the day.
Paid Kaplan classes are advertised on the same page - that is an upsell, not something this page is recommending.
The ACT changed format: the legacy 215-question ACT is retired, and the Enhanced ACT is now the only version. English, Math, and Reading are mandatory and make the Composite score. Science is now OPTIONAL - scored 1-36 separately, feeds a STEM score, and does NOT count toward the Composite. Writing stays optional. 171 questions with Science, 131 without. The 1-36 scale is unchanged.
For grades 9-11, school-administered - the ACT's answer to the PSAT.
No price is published on that page.
No paid prep product is named here, on purpose: Bluebook's four adaptive full-length SATs plus Khan Academy, and ACT's own free full-length practice tests above, already cover official full-length practice for both tests at zero cost.
FAFSA, Texas aid, CSS Profile, and what a school actually costs
The federal form that determines federal aid eligibility, and the one most colleges and many state and school aid programs key off of.
Could not verify by direct navigation: studentaid.gov timed out on every attempt on 2026-08-16, eight or more tries. This address is confirmed by two other federal pages that did load (linked below), but we could not read the page ourselves.
The 2026-27 FAFSA has been open to everyone since September 24, 2025, and it covers attendance from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
Not open yet. The Department states it is "on track to launch... by October 1, 2026" - a target, not a confirmed date.
The federal FAFSA deadline is June 30 after the academic year ends, so the 2026-27 form closes June 30, 2027.
FSA ID: the student AND at least one contributing parent EACH need their own account, and they cannot share an email address.
Could not verify: no primary source for how many days in advance to create the account was found, so no lead-time figure is given here.
For Texas residents who cannot file a FAFSA.
The 2026-27 Texas state priority deadline was January 15, 2026 - that date has already passed. The 2027-28 priority date is not published in anything we could source this run.
Need-based state grants - TEXAS Grant recipients can get up to $6,000 across fall and spring, with a high-school-program and 9+ credit hour requirement.
No athlete-specific Texas state grant was found. These are need-based programs.
About 260 mostly private colleges use it to hand out their OWN money, on top of FAFSA. Verbatim: "The following colleges, universities, and scholarship programs use CSS Profile and/or IDOC as part of their financial aid process."
Verbatim: "The CSS Profile is $25 for the initial application to one institution, and $16 for each additional institution."
Fees reset every year. Confirm at the link before you pay.
Free if family AGI is $100,000 or less, or the student had an SAT fee waiver, or is an orphan or ward of the court under 24.
CSS timing: there is no single CSS Profile deadline. Early Decision and Early Action schools often want it by November 1 or 15 - earlier than most families think about financial aid at all.
Every college that takes federal aid must publish a net price calculator. This is the federal way to find any specific school's, without guessing a URL.
Early application - what the words mean
We could not find any source that publishes early application deadlines per school in a form we can hold offline, so this page does not show one. Here is what the words mean, and where you type the date once you have it (in each school's row above).
Verbatim definitions. ED: "A 'binding' application process by which you commit to enrolling in a certain college if you're admitted. You can apply to other colleges, but only apply ED to 1 college. If admitted, you must withdraw your other applications." EA: "An application process to apply and receive a decision earlier than the regular decision notification date. Unlike early decision (ED), EA is 'non-binding' and you have no obligation to enroll and will have until May 1 to consider the offer." Restrictive/Single-Choice EA: "Similar to early action... colleges place certain restrictions on your applications to other early application processes." Rolling: "A decision plan that lets students submit an application at any time throughout the year. Colleges will review applications as they receive them, and make admission decisions throughout the year." ED II is NOT a Common App-defined term - it is absent from this dictionary - and is an institution-specific second binding round. "Priority" is not standardised either; one real example describes a December 1 priority scholarship deadline as maximising merit-scholarship consideration and earlier notification "without the binding commitment of early decision," with the student still having until May 1.
The old Common App link died when they republished this file. Linked to the current one - same content, verified word-for-word on 2026-08-26.
Typical 2026-27 windows observed (not a rule - every school sets its own): ED, REA, and SCEA cluster November 1-15, 2026. ED II clusters January 2-15, 2027. Regular Decision clusters January 1-15, 2027. Priority deadlines are commonly late November to early December. Rolling has no fixed date.
Because somebody will tell you a coach can make you apply early. Verbatim, from the conference's own rule: "a coach may not require a candidate to refrain from visiting or applying to other schools, or to withdraw applications to other schools, as a condition for support during the admissions process."
Common App also publishes a member-school requirements grid that lists ED/EA/deadline info by school - the closest thing to a bulk source we found. We read it but did not capture a working URL, so it is not linked here, and it covers Common App member schools only (MIT, Georgetown, and the University of California system are not members).
Could not link: no URL for this document was captured during research. It is described here rather than guessed at.
Athletic money - what it usually is
Verbatim: "most student-athletes receive partial aid, not a full ride... The amount you receive depends on your sport, your division, and your school."
D3 does not offer athletic scholarships at all - verbatim from ncaa.org's D3 page: "Division III schools do not offer athletics scholarships." Merit and need-based aid still apply. That is not a lesser path - see the note on the D3 eligibility link above.
Verbatim: aid "is limited to the actual cost of tuition, mandatory fees, books and supplies required for courses in which the student-athlete is enrolled, and room and board."
Effective July 1, 2025, verbatim: "NCAA rules for Division I programs will no longer include sport-specific scholarship limits." Opted-in schools operate under per-sport roster limits instead.
Could not verify further: the page does not say every D1 school opted in, says nothing about D2, and no ncaa.org page was found stating whether the old headcount-versus-equivalency scholarship split still applies anywhere. Ask that program's compliance office directly - this page does not print a rule table it cannot back up.
The old stacking rule this page used to cite (Bylaw 15.5.3.2.4.1, Academic Honor Awards) is gone. We checked the current 2025-26 NCAA Division I Manual directly: Article 15 runs straight from Bylaw 15.3.6.2 into Article 16, with zero mentions anywhere in the book of "honor award," "equivalency computation," or that bylaw number. It was deleted along with the whole per-sport dollar-limit system it was an exception to, as part of the House settlement, effective July 1, 2025 - the manual stamps "6/6/25 effective 7/1/25" on hundreds of provisions, and NCAA's own Phase 3 Implementation Q&A (Question B9) confirms sport-specific Bylaw 15 provisions were removed, not renumbered, to make that happen. What actually governs today: Bylaw 15.01.5, verbatim, "An institution shall not award financial aid to a student-athlete that exceeds the cost of attendance that normally is incurred by students enrolled in a comparable program at that institution (see Bylaw 15.1), except as specifically authorized by NCAA legislation." And Bylaw 15.1.2, also verbatim: "In determining whether a student-athlete's financial aid exceeds the cost of attendance, all institutional financial aid ... and all funds received from the following and similar sources shall be included." So an academic scholarship from the same school and the soccer money add up against one ceiling, not two separate ones. Whether a qualifying academic honor award is still carved out of that ceiling is not something the current manual answers - its own cross-reference for what is exempt from that limit (Bylaws 15.02.5.4 through .6) points to sub-bylaws that no longer exist in the book. Ask that program's compliance office directly, by name, before counting on any number.
The old bylaw's LSDBi record (ruleId 3931) returns "Record not found" at every current reference date we checked - it is not live rule anymore. Separately, the settlement behind this change is still under a Ninth Circuit Title IX appeal (three consolidated appeals; oral argument was still pending as of early 2026) - so far that appeal has stayed only back-pay damages, and has not halted the settlement's go-forward provisions, but this area of NCAA rules has already changed once and could change again. We could not confirm whether this individual cost-of-attendance cap works the same way at a D1 school that did not opt into the settlement, or at Division II. Ask that program's compliance office directly before counting on any number.
D2: still runs per-sport equivalency scholarship limits, unaffected by the D1 House settlement - confirmed directly on ncaa.org. We could not locate Division II's own academic-honor-award exemption bylaw in a source we could read this run, so we are not printing a D2 bylaw number here; the same stacking idea plausibly applies, but ask the compliance office rather than assume.
NAIA: a sport's overall aid cap can also make room for academically-gifted students who meet the NAIA's own GPA/test criteria - the same stacking idea, different rulebook.
D3 (see "not a lesser path," above): with no athletic scholarship in the mix at all, academic and need-based aid is not a supplement to soccer money there, it is the whole budget. Elsewhere, a partial athletic award is a slice of a capped budget split across a whole roster - this site shows each school's cap and roster size on its own card - while an academic award is sized like any other student's, not divided among teammates.
National Letter of Intent: reported eliminated for D1 - the Council approved the change on October 9, 2024, and recruits now sign the school's own athletics aid agreement instead.
Could not verify: no per-sport signing date is given here - the NCAA-hosted PDF describing it was located but could not be read this run.
Cost of attendance, median earnings, and graduate debt, per program, already on this site.
The dated calendar - SAT and ACT test dates
Most students first sit the SAT or ACT in the fall or spring of junior year, with a possible retake in the fall of senior year. This is general test-prep guidance, not an official policy - there is no single correct grade, and no College Board or ACT policy statement names one.
All deadlines 11:59 p.m. ET. Dates and deadlines change - confirm at the link before you register.
| Test date | Regular deadline | Late deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 2026 | Aug 7 | Aug 11 |
| Sep 12 2026 | Aug 28 | Sep 1 |
| Oct 3 2026 | Sep 18 | Sep 22 |
| Nov 7 2026 | Oct 23 | Oct 27 |
| Dec 5 2026 | Nov 20 | Nov 24 |
| Mar 6 2027 | Feb 19 | Feb 23 |
| May 1 2027 | Apr 16 | Apr 20 |
| Jun 5 2027 | May 21 | May 25 |
Registration was open for all fall 2026 dates as of 2026-08-16; spring 2027 dates typically open later in fall 2026 - confirm before assuming May or June is bookable.
ACT 2026-27 test dates and deadlines. All deadlines 11:59 p.m. Central. Dates and deadlines change - confirm at act.org before you register.
| Test date | Regular deadline | Late deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 19 2026 | Aug 14 | Sep 1 |
| Oct 17 2026 | Sep 11 | Sep 29 |
| Dec 12 2026 | Nov 6 | Nov 29 |
| Feb 27 2027 | Jan 22 | Feb 9 |
| Apr 10 2027 | Mar 5 | Mar 23 |
| Jun 12 2027 | May 7 | May 25 |
| Jul 10 2027 | Jun 4 | Jun 22 |
Camp season is its own calendar with its own date-trust caveat, so it lives on the ID Camps tab where you can filter and search it - not duplicated here.
Ranked by . That tab is where you say what actually matters - a minimum grade on academics, on your chance to play, on winning. Set one thing there and this list ranks on what you said, instead of on program spend. A program never drops off for missing data - only a real grade below what you asked for, or a filter you set on purpose.
| Rank | School / Program | Your criteria | Why this rank | Actions |
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Nobody has graded these on the things you asked for. Listed A to Z, not ranked. Their score reads 0.000 - the same as an F, for the opposite reason: no one has looked yet.
| Rank | School / Program | Your criteria | Why this rank | Actions |
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These came off for a real grade below one of your minimums, or a campus/travel rule you made required. Never for missing data. Pin one and it comes straight back. Rule one out and it is gone for good, whatever your minimums say later.
These are off the table for your own reasons, and your reasons do not have to be on a grade card. They never come back on their own - not from a ranking, not from a filter, not from anything you change in Priorities. Restore is the only way back.
Your shortlist and the order you dragged it into, your priorities, your checklist, your athlete details and your coach contact log are saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere and nobody else can see it - which also means it does not follow you to another phone or computer, and clearing your browser data erases it. Save a backup file and you can put everything back later, or move it to a different device.