Does a coach letter this late in the game mean something?

Parents Forum
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<p>What do you make of a letter from a coach encouraging our child to "choose the school", dated less than two weeks before acceptance letters go out? Seems like it would be in pretty bad taste to send something encouraging unless they KNOW the child is IN. Anyone have any experience with this?</p>

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<p>If you don’t get a lot of answers here, you might want to try posting this question in the Athletic Recruits forum:
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<p>thanks; I am new to the site. I will go there.</p>

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<p>I would take this to mean that your kid is getting an acceptance letter.</p>

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<p>we see it that way as well, but since this is the “stretch” school, we are all leery of getting too excited. It is DIII but a highly ranked school. We were all doing fine until the letter and now … well it will be hard to sleep this next week or two…thanks for your input, mom and others!</p>

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<p>If you have had some good contact with the coach, I would email him/her or call and see what the letter means.</p>

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<p>i thought “parent contact” was frowned upon. Do you think an email from me would be okay? We have met and she invited us to sit in the meeting with our daughter. We were both there, so we did have contact… On the other hand, I read that the coach cannot make any statements or promises, so we might be better off just waiting a week or more…</p>

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<p>Either way. I think some parent contact is fine- as one coach told us- “I am the adult who your child will be spending the most time with on this campus. Feel free to get to know me and contact me anytime.”</p>

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<p>It would seem appropriate for your d to send the coach a letter stating something like:</p>

<p>“I was very happy to receive your note and will seriously be considering attending XX Univ and playing (SPort) if I receive an acceptance letter at the end of March.”</p>

<p>Is it possible that this is somewhat of a fishing letter…looking for a response…to see if the kid is really interested in attending the school and playing the sport? Others on this forum who have kids who have been recruited athletes will have better insight…but…I wouldn’t see any harm in your daughter sending a response to the coach…especially if it’s a school she’d really like to attend.</p>