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This recruiting timeline calendar is designed to serve as a general guide to aid the high school aged hockey player in the college search process, especially as it pertains to Colgate University. It is not an exact science and each player’s process will be a bit different. If you miss a step or start later, it will not disqualify you. Feel free to contact us at any time if you need to know what information you should be providing us (click on the "CONTACT US" link on left).

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Colgate Recruiting Calendar
(Each year begins the July before you begin classes for that year)

GRADE 10	GRADE 11	GRADE 12
September Division I hockey recruiting is happening much earlier each year. So, you should begin to think about College options now. October Fill out and submit the Colgate Online Recruit Questionnaire form as completely as you can. Go back to this as often as needed to keep your tournament schedule updated. November E-mail us at Colgate expressing your interest. December Continue to play well and do well in school. January Please note that while you are allowed to contact us, we cannot contact you this year (Contact types include, e-mail, letters and phone). February Phone us if you want to plan an unofficial visit during your school vacation (please remember that we cannot respond to your e-mails). March Begin to research Colleges and Universities and create a list of schools that interest you.  Websites are a great start. April If you are interested in the Colgate Summer ID Camp, sign up this month. May Use our online Recruit Questionnaire form to keep your tournament and summer camps schedule updated, and make sure we have an accurate phone number on file for you. June Fax us a copy of your unofficial High School transcript (Grades 9 & 10), after your final grades have been added.	July Take an unofficial visit to Colgate over the summer, if you get the chance. To schedule this, contact us ahead of time. August Use our online Recruit Questionnaire form to kupdate your fall tournament schedule and make sure we have an accurate e-mail address on file for you. September This is the first month that we can send a recruiting e-mail to you. We are still allowed to phone you once per month this entire year. Register for the NCAA Clearinghouse. October If you have changed teams, your school, or your mailing address, fill out our online recruiting questionnaire again to keep us up-to-date. November E-mail us your winter team’s game and tournament schedule. Feel free to plan an unofficial visit during our season to check out a game and the Colgate campus during the school year. Call or e-mail us to schedule this. December If you play for a team or in an area that we do not scout that often, send us short a video of you playing hockey. January Sign up for the Spring SAT and/or ACT testing dates. February Keep us up-to-date on your playing schedule (post-season tournaments, playoffs etc.) Schedule an unofficial visit to Colgate this semester, maybe during your school's spring break. Please call us to schedule, as there are a few dates that are blacked out by the NCAA rules. March If you have not done so yet, fax us a copy of your High School transcript (if you sent one after grade 10, then wait until the end of the school year to send us an updated one). April If you are interested, sign up for the Colgate Summer ID Camp. When taking SATs make sure you indicate the NCAA Clearinghouse number (9999) as a place to send your scores. May Use our online Recruit Questionnaire form to keep your tournament and summer camps schedule updated. We encourage recruits to come to Colgate on an unofficial visit in this month. June Make sure we are updated with your most recent telephone numbers and complete High School Transcript (Grades 9-11). Register for NCAA Clearinghouse after your Junior year. We encourage recruits to come to Colgate on an unofficial visit in this month.	July July 7th is the first day we can phone you AND the first day we are allowed to speak with you face-to-face off-campus. We generally phone the top players on our list by the end of this month. We will begin to extend verbal scholarship offers.  We extend offers at various times throughout this year on an individual basis with each recruit.  If we do not offer you one in this month, it does not mean we are not interested. If possible you should take an unofficial visit to all the schools in which you have an interest, by the end of the summer. August Begin planning Official Visits – If we are interested in you, we will offer you an official visit to Colgate.  We continue to extend visits on an individual basis throughout the fall.  Remember, you may only take FIVE Official Visits to any school. Register for fall SAT and ACT tests as needed. September Begin to take your official visits to compare schools. October Retake SAT and ACT tests as needed to improve your scores. November The NLI (National Letter of Intent) signing date is early in this month.  If we have offered you scholarship money, and you have chosen Colgate, you will get your application in by early this month and receive NLI signing papers from Colgate. December In general, we will have selected and accepted about 75% of our incoming class by this month. January If you are still considering Colgate you should get all your application materials in by January 15th. February We generally finalize our recruiting class in this month. April Those who have applied on their own through regular decision will get a letter from Colgate Admissions by early April.