What we do
Recruiting at academically selective colleges is decided by two things at once: whether a coaching staff wants you, and whether an admissions office can take you.
Most services work on the first. We work on both — because the second is what disqualifies the majority of players who don't end up where they hoped.
THE PROBLEM
The number nobody explains
There's a number called the Academic Index. It runs from 60 to 240 and it's built from two things: GPA and test scores.
Every Ivy program sets a floor. Below that floor, a coach cannot recruit you. Not "it's harder." Cannot submit you — regardless of what your film shows.
The Patriot League runs its own academic standards. High academic Division III programs run theirs. Different mechanisms, same principle: the academic side gates the athletic side, and it's decided before a coach ever makes a call.
Here's what makes it expensive. That number comes from a transcript that takes four years to write and a test score that takes months to move. By the time most families hear the term, it's November of senior year and there's nothing left to pull on.
The families who end up with real choices are almost always the ones who knew their number early.
THE SCOPE
Eight schools, or sixty-eight
The Ivy League is eight schools. The Patriot League is ten. High academic Division III is more than sixty.
Most families spend two years aiming at the first eight and discover the rest in November of senior year — with no relationship to any of those coaches, no film cut for them, and no time to build either.
MIT · Chicago · Williams · Amherst · Pomona-Pitzer · Claremont-Mudd-Scripps · Occidental · Emory · Carnegie Mellon · Bowdoin · Middlebury · Tufts
Three things worth knowing about that list:
The academics hold up. These are not consolation schools. Several are harder to get into than several Ivies.
The money often works better. Neither the Ivy League nor Division III offers athletic scholarships — that surprises most families and gets read as bad news. It usually isn't. Every Ivy and many of these D3 schools meet full demonstrated financial need, and merit aid is common at the rest. It is not unusual for a family to pay less at a top-25 liberal arts college than at their own state flagship.
The playing time is real. At eight schools, you're competing against every high-academic player in the country. At sixty-eight, the odds you're on the floor as a sophomore go up substantially.
Building toward sixty-eight programs instead of eight isn't lowering a target. It's the difference between having options and having hope.
WHY US
We're in the gym
We run the camps these coaches attend. Our founders run the Attitude of Gratitude High Academic circuits, and our team evaluates at the Ivy League elite camps every along with camps and tournaments across the country.
When we tell a coaching staff about a player, it's a conversation with someone who knows us. Not a profile uploaded into a database alongside ten thousand others.
We work the academic side, which almost nobody does. Most recruiting services are exposure businesses — they get a player seen. That's a real service and it isn't ours. We calculate the Academic Index, build target lists against actual program bands, plan the testing timeline backward from pre-read dates, and coordinate the pre-read itself.
One person, start to finish. You work directly with Scott Martin. No account manager, no handoff, no rotating staff. Monthly meetings that get more frequent as deadlines approach, and direct access when something time-sensitive happens — which in this process, it always does.
THE SERVICES
How we work together. Four ways in, depending on where you are.
Fit Report · Free · 48 hours
Send your unweighted GPA, test score, and graduation year. We calculate your Academic Index by hand and send back a written read on where you actually stand — with 8–12 named programs across all three levels.
48 hours. No charge, and nothing to buy afterward.
If the Ivy path isn't realistic for your profile, the report will say so plainly.
Reality Check · $399 · 7 days
A complete evaluation and a plan, in writing. For families who want an expert read and intend to run the process themselves.
Full film evaluation with an honest read on level and position projection · your Academic Index with the school-profile factors specific to your transcript · a written target list of 20–25 named programs sorted into reach, fit, and likely · a 90-day action plan · coach outreach templates · one 30-minute call to walk through it.
Season Package · $3,500 · One recruiting cycle
One recruiting cycle, managed. For rising seniors inside a compressed window.
Everything in the Reality Check, plus monthly working meetings · film strategy · coach outreach we build and you send · direct introductions where we have the relationship · camp and showcase selection · visit strategy · pre-read support · email access with 24-hour response.
Full Cycle · $15,000 · 12 to 18 months
The complete engagement, start to signing. This is our core service.
Everything above, plus 12–18 months of managed recruitment · direct phone access to Scott · priority placement at our events in front of the staffs on your list · coach relationship management · academic strategy including course selection and testing timeline · pre-read coordination with every program that engages · offer evaluation · financial aid strategy.
THE HONESTY BLOCK
What we don't do
We don't guarantee placement, offers, or admission. Nobody can. Coaches make their own decisions and admissions offices make theirs. Any service promising an outcome it doesn't control is telling you something it can't back.
We're not a database. You aren't buying a profile in a system that emails thousands of coaches at once. College staffs have said plainly that mass-uploaded profiles don't get preferential treatment.
We don't do test prep. It's a specialized skill and we're not the right people. When the test score is the binding constraint — which it often is — we'll say so and refer you to someone who does it well. We don't take a fee for that referral.
We won't tell you what you want to hear. If the Ivy path isn't realistic at your profile, you'll hear it in the first conversation, at no cost, and in plain terms.
THE CONSTRAINT
We're not right for everyone
Roughly a third of the families who complete a consultation are told we're not the right fit, and we tell them exactly why. A family fixed on the Ivy League with an Academic Index well below the band is a family we'd disappoint, and taking their money would be the wrong call.
We cap at ten families per graduating class. Not a marketing device — it's the number one person can serve properly at this level of involvement. When a class is full, it's full.
You'll find out this number eventually
Everything else follows from it. Send three things — unweighted GPA, test score, graduation year — and we'll calculate your Academic Index and send back a written fit read across the Ivy League, Patriot League, and high academic Division III.
48 hours. Free. Nothing to buy.
