<p>We have learned from (NESCAC College I) that you have been accepted for admissions under their early decision program. Please accept our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for a rewarding four years.</p>
<p>Since an early decision acceptance carries with it a commitment to attend that institiution, I am taking the liberty of withdrawing your (NESCAC College II) application from further consideration. </p>
<p>Actually his withdrawal letter had been mailed. </p>
<p>but – QUESTION: how did the first school find out about his acceptance. And, under the privacy laws is this legal?</p>
<p>is your friend a recruited athlete? The coaches may talk & know who's committed where early. Of course, this theory would require that College II coach report what he/she knew back to admissions.</p>
<p>In the Ivy ED agreement, it says that if you are accepted ED to an Ivy, the rest will not accept you. I would assume that they share acceptance data. Also, I have heard that Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and other top schools (which probably includes NESCAC) also share this ED information. All these colleges directly compete with each other over students. To help each other out and be courteous, they probably share ED information, and automatically withdraw applicants who were accepted ED elsewhere. Also, on my matriculation card for an Ivy, it had on the back a list of schools that share an agreement that once you send a deposit to one, you cannot withdraw it and send a deposit to any of the others listed (like 30 top private schools), so I would assume that they also share information on RD admits who say that they will matriculate.</p>
<p>Sorry -- This should have been posted under admissions -- I reposted it under that thread. Bowdoin is not even one of the two colleges involved.</p>
<p>My friend plans on playing a sport but it's a D3 school. Would that still be considered a recruited athlete?</p>
<p>mnozzi-- if the coach (any Division) used his/her influence to help your friend's admission chances, then yes, your friend was recruited. One doesn't need to be receiving an athletic scholarship to be recruited (& D3 schools don't have athletic scholarships.) If your friend has used no coach influence, then he would be a "walk-on" if he intends to eventually try-out for a team.</p>
<p>ps...you better believe that coaches from Bowdoin or any other NESCAC personally know other NESCAC coaches & chat with each other, especially when it comes to recruiting woes.</p>
<p>The admissions directors and the athletic directors for all the NESCAC schools had a joint meeting in mid-February. My understanding is that this is an annual event and data sharing goes on with regard to admitted athletes. I don't know that privacy laws would be implicated in simply sharing the names of admitted athletes at the NESCAC schools but I do wonder how they manage to share other data (like GPAs and SATs) without runnin afoul of those laws.</p>