<p>From today’s Yale Daily News on Athletic Recruiting:
[Future</a> of athletic recruitment remains uncertain | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/10/18/future-of-athletic-recruitment-remains-uncertain/]Future”>Future of athletic recruitment remains uncertain - Yale Daily News)</p>
<p>Looks like our son will be going to Ithaca. Very proud !!</p>
<p>Congrats GingerPeach. Go Big Red!</p>
<p>My son committed to Williams for swimming!</p>
<p>My D commits to Temple.</p>
<p>Congrats Zebra!</p>
<p>Congrats, zebra !!! Great school !!!</p>
<p>I have a question to the posters of D3 schools. How do you commit given the fact that there are no LL’s in D3? Do you mean your child submitted ED?</p>
<p>landed mom, in D3 a commitment is a verbal understanding between coach and athlete that if admitted by admissions, the player will attend the school. The athlete makes this commitment, and in return, the coach commits to use what influence or support they can give to help the athlete through admissions. Very often coaches can provide a short list of must-have athletes as well as another list of “supported” athletes which may have scores and grades closer to the school’s averages.</p>
<p>You can commit as an athlete at any time you’re comfortable with it. You can commit and go ED, commit and go ED2, or even commit and go RD if you are a fantastic athlete, not sure about FA and you have coaches willing to wait for you.</p>
<p>You can even commit to go somewhere ED and if it doesn’t work out (maybe there’s a bad grade in the fall), commit to another school for another admissions cycle.</p>
<p>Basically, though, it’s a matter of trust which although it works out for the most part, can induce some anxiety until the actual admissions letters come out.</p>
<p>Thank you meow1985 for the explanation. I could not understand how on college swimming.com some swimmers were committing to the D3 school my son is applying to. The swim coach is supporting his ED application. He told my son he is on the ED list he sent over to admissions. However, even though my son has the grades and scores for this school, he would never post publicly that he committed until we have that admissions decision in hand. I wish your son the best of luck on his school of choice. Wondering which NESCAC school he applied to since my son was recruited at several but chose to go ED in another conference. Truly appreciate your taking the time to answer my question.</p>
<p>Is this a commitment? My daughter received the following letter from a coach at a D-3 school, where she has met with the coach and had a great conversation , and done an overnight with. She really wants to play there.</p>
<p>“As a strong student and soccer player I have chosen you as a candidate for Early Action at ________ College. Good luck with the application process . if there is anything I can assist you with during this process, please contact me via…(e-mail address)”</p>
<p>I know that might be a stupid question, but since D3 is a verbal commitment, this seems pretty clear, but want to know what others think.</p>
<p>Other people with D3 experience will probably chime in with better advice, but if it were my kid, I’d have her call or email the coach and ask exactly what kind of support she is offering, and where she stands on the coaches list before I sent in the application.</p>
<p>Since this would be an early action application and the school is your top choice then there is low risk in this situation. If you are accepted by the school you would not be required to go there. If you were not accepted then you could apply to another school during ED II. Theoretically you could apply to another school ED but I would not recommend this because if you were accepted you would be expected to go there. The ED deadline for most schools is Nov 1, so if you don’t have a more appealing offer from another school at this point then I would go ahead and apply.</p>
<p>S committed (HYP) in late September, submitted EA, received LL last week!</p>
<p>Our knowledge of his recruiting possibility only started one year ago and we learned so much on CC. Thanks to Varska, Sherpa, Swimkidsdad, 5amriser, Classicalmama, Fogfog, Fenwaysouth and many others.</p>
<p>See, I knew someone would have better advice than I! But I’m still curious about how to translate that language. It sounds so vague to me. I have a potential D3 runner coming along in the next few years, so am trying to tune my ears to that different dialect.</p>
<p>And should maybe officially add my athlete’s commit to this list. Likely letter, Yale.</p>
<p>Congrats Rowmom and Classicalmama!</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. Since it is not a Nescac school, but good level D-3, I think it is just a more mellow process. Once she gets in, and we see what kind of merit money she gets, then we will push to hear the word “committed”. He did tell her, that if he is stalking her to meet and do OV, then he wants her. So again, since that was the only official thing we got in writing, I wanted to hear what others thought.</p>
<p>ELKyes, I echo classicalmama’s words … Would call to see where your athlete stands on the coach’s list and what his choice of her as a “candidate for early action” means. Does it mean he will be working with admissions?</p>
<p>Also congrats to rowmom & classicalmama. I am another one of those who does not want to tempt fate and get ahead of the admissions letter, so I am sitting on my hands until December!</p>
<p>Congrats to all! Way to go! Thanks for all the info along the way!</p>
<p>My daughter e-mailed coach, and clarified that she is committed once she gets accepted. So should be posting here by 12/15, when we get letter!!! We are all relieved, and excited. Will be nice to have one kid close to home…other down in SC.</p>