<p>Is it a school-by-school policy whether a college coach can tell a recruit if they've been admitted before the official acceptance decisions go out? In the past three weeks, my son has heard everything from "Congrats, you're in!" to "We've gotten very positive feedback from Admissions about you." to nada. All regular (March notification) decisions. If we hear nothing from a school coach should we assume he didn't make it.....or that the school prohibits advance notice? Just wondering......</p>
<p>Most schools, especially the ones on the selective end of the spectrum, frown on coaches making admissions decisions (or telegraphing the same). So don’t assume a coach’s silence means he didn’t get in.</p>
<p>For my D, the silent coaches were from the schools she didn’t get into - the others were vocal about admissions (at this time her senior year in HS)</p>
<p>Thanks for your answers. The one coach we’ve heard nothing from is his “Hail Mary” school…it’s super selective…he’s scraping the bottom of their addmission stats and we know he wouldn’t have a prayer without sports, so I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t get in. The one school where he got the “congrats” phone call (and subsequent congrats email) is also a pretty selective school. Not as selective as the other one…but still up there. It’s weird how different schools follow such different recruiting methods. A year into it and I still don’t understand it!</p>