<p>What percentage of players who commit (div 3 NESCAC) would you guess commit but dont' get in ED? Is it a very small percentage? I guess its my nerves getting the best of me.</p>
<p>Second do coaches always know before the student finds out that they definitely got in? In to other words is it protocol for an admissions office to notify the coaches to confirm their recruits got in and if so do most coaches in some subtle way communicate this to their athlete or is that more of a Div 1 thing?</p>
<p>Division three schools vary quite a bit, but my experience has been that athletes do not “commit” to D3 schools. The closest they come to “committing” is agreeing to submit to binding Early Decision. These “committing” students rely in exchange on the support of a coach. If the coach changes his or her mind regarding support, then the athlete is just a run of the mill ED application. The problem is that the quid pro quo is oral, so there really is nothing the student can do if the coach changes his or her mind.</p>
<p>All coaches will say that they cannot guarantee the outcome with admissions. I do believe the coaches who have been employed by a particular college for several years will have more experience with admissions, greater insight into what kind of kid will get in, and may have more of a relationship with admissions. </p>
<p>It can and does happen that students who have coach support are not admitted. I can only guess at the reason. I suspect that those further down on the list have a declining level of coach support. Graph that against the academic abilities of the application. Thus, if a B+ student is at the top of the list, he or she is likely to get in. By the same token, an A+ student at the bottom of the list may get in. There are more questions about the B+ student at the bottom-middle of the list. </p>
<p>In my experience, D3 coaches are not told admissions decisions, however they may get a sense of where things are going during pre-reads. I think admissions is always supposed to tell the student-applicant first.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response. My son was told he was his top recruit. He also got a thumbs up from admissions in the summer, and that is when he called my son to offer him a slot on the team which he accepted aka a “verbal commit”. So far so good…crossing our fingers.</p>
<p>I didn’t think admissions told coaches before decisions go out but by the same token I would hope that if they know a top recruit is not going to gain admission that maybe they would give a kind of courtesy to the coach to give him a heads up? I wonder about that. So far any and all communication however from the coach has been positive.</p>
<p>We will have trouble with this, as my son is a legacy at an Ivy but two D3’s are very high on his list as well. He will submit ED for the Ivy, but we are really wondering about how it would impact his chances at the D3 schools if he gets rejected from the Ivy.</p>
<p>The best we can do is have him get a pre-read ASAP from the Ivy.</p>