<p>Anyone who is being or was recruited for Yale football (or any sport for academic matters), can you explain how they collect their lists of prospective recruits regarding academic and athletic performance?</p>
<p>Introducing youself to coaches is the best method. An email with a SUMMARY of your academic and athletic accomplishments and goals will do the trick.</p>
<p>That's the thing...</p>
<p>I didn't play the last year (I'm a junior right now). I didn't "quit" my team, but I took myself off for academic probation the last 7 games. Unlike most of my teammates, I care to learn in school not just to get a 2.0 and stay on the team (I smile at the mid-semester scramble for extra credit and my coach's frustration with it). My scores are stable and will get better the next time I take the SAT/SAT II but my GPA is on the low end of what you would expect for a applicant.</p>
<p>Besides my coach was fixated on players who were arrogant, selfish and couldn't play, so I didn't bother. But I play 2 years on our JV and I've been training for a local Nike combine, hoping that any good results there could get me the attention I would've gotten had I started. The reason I'd look at Yale is cause I have the potential to get scores that are in their median and my size puts me at the low end of D1 schools, I'm not one of the 4, 5-star Scout.com-ers, All-State All-American type players.</p>
<p>Check the ncaa website for an Athletic Index estimator. College coaches use this to see how you fit academically. The formula asks for your class rank and SAT I score. Hopefully a Yale football player (or wannabe) on CC will help you find out if your AI is in the ballpark (or give you a goal to shoot for :)) </p>
<p>You might want to think about contacting coaches at the schools that interest you NOW to find out where they might be able to see you play in the next 6 months (camps, showcase games. etc). I'm hopeless on football, but some parts of the process are the same no matter the sport. Principally, you have no time to lose, as much athletic recruiting takes place in the spring of your junior year and the following summer, and is coming to a close before the application deadlines in the fall and winter.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. I didn't expect much if any of a response from anyone on CC because... well, it's CC, you see the backgrounds for alot of these kids and "Ivy League" + "potential recruit" doesn't sit well with them and their parents. I really can't blame them for that.</p>
<p>I finally put together a solid GPA estimation, and the CC AI calculator put me at a 194 with an AI of 3 out of 9. I'm assuming "greater means better" in this case, but what do those numbers mean? I heard AI is looked differently for football</p>
<p>My uneducated guess is that a 194 is a darn good AI. It sounds like your HS coach and you weren't on the best terms. Do you have a club or JV coach who would be a good contact for a college coach to talk with about your football ability? When you email college coaches, include the email and phone number for the coach who loves you best.</p>
<p>The Yale coach is sitting around the house right now hoping you'll email him tonight.</p>
<p>Oh, my coach and I are great with each other. I wouldn't ask him to say much until he sees me during our touch football tournaments in spring/summer because I didn't finish the season, but he's really great about exposing the athletes who try, and even suggested Dartmouth to one of our seniors. (unfortunately, he started talking to the coach there when the recruiting class was nearly set in stone).</p>
<p>I can only image Siedlecki could pull 2-star and 3-star, maybe 4-star recruits if he wanted to, which is why I need this combine in March to go well for me. The season's still far off, but I can't wait till then to get some exposure.</p>
<p>Are you a junior? You should make up a full athletic resume with all your football accomplishments. I would also recommend making a DVD with clips of you playing. Send that along with a letter introducing yourself to all the coaches at schools you're even thinking about applying to. </p>
<p>You can certainly tell coaches later that you're no longer interested in their program but it's much more difficult to start late in the game and add a school/team to your list after junior year.</p>
<p>Good point. Will do that when we start our touch football tournaments in May. Until then, the only big event is this Nike Combine in Long Beach.</p>
<p>You might want to read "Playing the Game: Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League." It will help a lot with understanding the AI and how coaches figure out their needs and options. It's also useful if you're considering NESCAC schools.</p>
<p>Well shine in that Long Beach event - every achievement counts, remember that! :)</p>
<p>To rainmama: I've heard of it, it's written by Chris Lincoln if I'm correct. I'll do some looking for it.</p>
<p>To tetrisfan: Thanks. I will, and I do remember that. My first achievement till that afternoon will be to get the soreness out of my thigh and backside muscles from squatting and leg pressing. Pickle juice is so undesirable, yet it's never available when it's needed...</p>
<p>highlander: Football recruiting is unlike any other sport in the ivies. Done by bands i.e. schools allowed to have so many recruits in each band which are different AI's. Limited number from low band , more from higher bands. search on CC about ivy football recruiting and you can find more.As I have stated elsewhere, lots of recruiting takes place in junior year. In my daughter's sport, recruiting list is filling as we speak. Coaches want to lock commits in place, maybe wait longer for the true superstar (as well as waiting to see SATs. coaches won't promise spot on list until SAT scores meet certain standards) (and lets once again reiterate COACHES CANT ADMIT, ONLY ADMISSIONS)Lets be clear, Ivies are recruiting TOP athletes that also have academic package as well as value an education. riverrunner knows best about all this</p>