<p>Congrats!! Great news.</p>
<p>That’s great! Best of luck to your child, looks like a busy fall…</p>
<p>We had some good news today. My daughter had a very nice 18 sec drop in her time. She called the coaches at her top two schools, emailed several more and got a quick response from one of her top three schools. No official visits scheduled yet, but we are hoping this significant improvement will help get the ball rolling.</p>
<p>Great news, fishymom. 18 seconds sounds like a huge drop to me! Was it a long event? Exciting at any rate :)</p>
<p>Thanks Wilberry! It was a 2k erg test.</p>
<p>Go fishymom’s daughter! This is SO great!! This will absolutely help her with her journey - excellent timing too!!</p>
<p>My daughter got another offer for an official visit today. It is from a school that she had contacted early on, but hadn’t heard much from. She met the coaches two weeks ago at a competition and got the offer in the mail today. We were both very surprised! It is a great school, and a good fit athletically. It is a bit farther away then I would like, but not a deal breaker. Lots to consider!</p>
<p>Congrats fishymom! Maybe it was the time drop she just had! ;-)</p>
<p>Question: do the offers have to come in the mail to be official, or do emails count?</p>
<p>Thanks Wilberry! Funny thing is, she hasn’t even told them about her new PR. She sent an updated resume along with her early read stuff, so they will have the info if they look at it. And she is expecting a call from the coach this week, so she will talk about it then.</p>
<p>I don’t think the offers have to come in the mail. I know some who have gotten offers verbally and others by email. I don’t think it really matters!</p>
<p>Well, very exciting. How many does she have now? You are allowed five? How does one fit five visits into the few weekends between the start of school and the signing period in November?</p>
<p>Our phone has been ringing a bit here with schools that my daughter never even filled in questionnaires for! They may have seen her on berecruited, or perhaps last week at her competition. It’s overwhelming, and at the same time, all those schools she sent all that info to have dropped out of sight! Although we are going to visit a couple later this week so we will see what that brings.</p>
<p>My daughter has several offers of official visits, but she has not chosen dates yet, and will probably only take one official visits from the ones that have been offered. She has a very busy fall, captain of a school team in one sport and fall season in another. She only has 3, or 4 if she skips the Sept. ACT, free weekends before signing period. She is waiting to hear about early reads from a couple of schools before she confirms dates. </p>
<p>These past two weeks seem to have been pretty quiet for my daughter’s friends in her sport, they have not been hearing much lately. Maybe this is a popular vacation time for college coaches, might be the same in your daughter’s sport. I wouldn’t worry about it though, I have heard things heat up the end of August as recruits firm up their official visits.</p>
<p>That’s true, and there are a other competitions going on this week and next in her sport so perhaps that’s part of the reason for the quiet. Someone did tell me it picks up in the fall. My daughter’s sport is mainly a winter sport so she can spare the weekends better in September/October but they are training throughout, so she can’t spare more than a few. She did email one coach back and picked a date, because he was the first one to offer her, and the school seems like a good fit for her academically and athletically. The question is, will it be a good fit financially and socially? Only one way to find out, I guess!!</p>
<p>We’ve had it with testing. If her scores are not good enough for a school, there will be another. She is tested out!!</p>
<p>My daughter is tested out also! Between FCATs, SATs, ACTs, APs and finals, last spring was a nightmare. Thank God that is over. I am hoping she will get by with her current scores, should know soon.</p>
<p>FCATs? I don’t even know what that is !! But yes: SATs (twice) SAT 2s (two dates), ACTs, APs, and finals … that was enough of that. She could take the SATs again, but I don’t think it would be significantly better at this point. Good luck on the prereads to your daughter :-)</p>
<p>^^
FCAT are like an SAT for Florida students–measuring performance in their state…</p>
<p>Congrats Fishy–sounds like your student is on the right track!! All great news and very nice to have so many nice options coming</p>
<p>Wilberry- you asked, above in post #68 about how offers can come. If your DD is pursuing the Ivies, those offers come in the form of likely letters (from admissions), or just regular admissions (if she is not fully supported). The coach’s words can be hopeful, but are not binding.</p>
<p>thanks fauve, </p>
<p>I think I was actually referring to offers of official visits, if a phone call or email offer counts or if they had to be in some official form. As for the actual offer-offers … we are not quite there yet, but I will be sure not to rely on any coach’s word. I’ve been cautioned many times about that both on and off this forum!</p>
<p>^^Regarding OV invitations, my daughter has received them via formal written letters, via email, and via the telephone. It seems as if anything goes in the form of invitation made!</p>
<p>Wilberry-Oh, I understand now. Yep, offers of OV can be in any form at all. Good luck with the plans!</p>
<p>Fauve, I have been wondering how offers may come and when. S had an admissions read which he passed, and the coach said they would decide soon. Almost two weeks have passed with no contact with S(the coach did contact S’s club coach), and we don’t know whether he is no longer interested or if, as mentioned, the answers really start coming around the end of August. This is an Ivy and our understanding is that they pretty much wrap up the process by the time school starts. I see that is, indeed, early September.</p>