<p>just curious if u can do that.</p>
<p>no... graduate school admissions is based more or less solely on the research you do and your college grades. extracurriculars and especially sports play a miniscule role.</p>
<p>college athletes only have 4 years of eligibility (5 years of eligibility to play 4, as they say)</p>
<p>some college athletes went to grad school while playing. Brett Basanez (QB for Northwestern) is in grad school for communications studies and I believe Peyton Manning got his master's while he was still playing for UT</p>
<p>They were probably in joint degree programs at their respective schools. At the graduate level it is all about the GRE's grades and research no one gives you points for being an athlete.</p>
<p>** Peyton Manning completed his degree, a BA in speech communication with a 3.61 GPA, in three years, and was projected to be the top overall pick in the NFL Draft, Manning returned to Tennessee for his senior year.</p>
<p>**Brett Basanez broke his leg freshman year and was red shirted that year.</p>
<p>If you redshirt for a year as an undergrad, it can help your grad school admission because you have a year (or season) of eligibility left. You can be recruited just as for undergrad.</p>
<p>Haha, only one of the grad schools I applied to even asked me to list my extracurriculars. Recruiting, I think, was out of the question. :)</p>
<p>actually</p>
<p>Biography for
Peyton Manning (<a href="http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1621659/bio%5B/url%5D">http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1621659/bio</a>)</p>
<p>Graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in speech communication in three years, but chose to return to Tennessee for a fourth year (and also to work on his master's degree).</p>
<p>For the examples given it is not so much as these athletes got recruited to play for grad school as much as they were still eligible to play because they did not play their 4 years as undergrads and remained at the schools where they were still eligible to play.</p>
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For the examples given it is not so much as these athletes got recruited to play for grad school as much as they were still eligible to play because they did not play their 4 years as undergrads and remained at the schools where they were still eligible to play.
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<p>There's at least one example in the lacrosse world of an athlete who played three years at one school going elsewhere (Maryland?) for grad school and playing for that school. </p>
<p>Recruited? It's going to depend on just what you mean by 'recruited' --</p>
<p>There certainly aren't many athletes that this can work out for -- but it can happen.</p>
<p>I know a DI runner who is currently a junior who redshirted this fall and is planning to use his eligibility to help him "choose" an MBA program.</p>
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I know a DI runner who is currently a junior who redshirted this fall and is planning to use his eligibility to help him "choose" an MBA program.
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The examples sited above, and the vast majority of cases, involve kids going to grad school at the same school as their undergrad and using their 5th year of eligibility in that way. In some sports in DI (e.g., football, hockey, and basketball at least) if an athlete switches schools they need to sit out a year before they can compete for their new school. So using their 5th year of athletic eligibility in grad school would be pretty tough to pull off at a different school than your undergraduate school if your sport has the transfer sit-a-year requirement.</p>