<p>what sport does your daughter play?</p>
<p>You have to weigh the odds. Playing sports with hopes of getting recruited requires lots of commitment. Can you balance that with your studies? (I mean, this IS Stanford and even athletes need to be somewhat intelligent). Do your best at both… trying getting recruited but also try to maintain a laudable GPA (I’d say 3.6 3.7) and try to have SATs within the 1950-2100 range. Good luck.</p>
<p>Yeah Stanford atheletes are really smart.</p>
<p>Some highly recruited athletes get their application, test scores, grade transcripts, recommendations, etc in their junior year to the admissions department. They are often notified of conditional admittance to Stanford the end of their junior year. It is conditioned on the athlete continuing to get acceptable grades through their senior year and supplying all the additional information such as mid-year academic progress reports from their high school. </p>
<p>To pvprincess: Williams was notified this past May (during her junior year) and made the announcement public about the verbal agreement as soon as she was accepted. Same thing for Spelman and Brown last year (their junior year). These three were nationally recruited volleyball players and are well known by everyone who follows women’s college volleyball. </p>
<p>I would just make the point that for most Stanford sports, top athletes are notified through their high school or club coaches during the sophomore and early junior years that Stanford is interested in possibly recruiting them. This is standard for most DI sports programs. </p>
<p>Some recruited athletes do not get admitted to Stanford because of academics. The admissions department makes the final decision.</p>
<p>Stanford? For sports? </p>
<p>Good luck with that. 
I imagine it would be ridiculously hard unless you were nationally ranked.</p>
<p>Thanks Cardfan. What you said makes sense now. My daughter is not a volleyball player and as for rankings nationally, as far as I know this is not done is her sport although she has played at national events. Sounds like the key person at this stage is her travel coach. Her academic standing is not a concern at this point but no SAT/ACT scores yet.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I am wondering… </p>
<p>Do athletes need “glowing” or “amazing” letter-of-rec’s as well? What if their GPA’s (3.5-3.6) are low from taking rigorous course loads during their Junior year since it’s hard to maintain a high UW GPA and devote their time to their sport? Also, I would like to have some first-hand experience\answers for this question concerning myself and a couple friends: Would a stanford athlete still be eligible for admission if he or she had an academic disciplinary problem? My friend and I play different sports but we got into an academic debacle near the end of our junior years since we were arrogant enough to try and handle rigorous course loads and devote time to our sport. Of course though, there are no excuses for this kind of behavior.</p>
<p>thanks for everyone elses other replies</p>
<p>This week a Stanford coach told me and my rising senior D that he is just now deciding on his short list of 5-10 athletes to bring in for an official. He might have been stretching the truth to cover up the fact that he is putting her on his list now from among his second choices, but that IS exactly what he said. He also said that after that first round of the selection process, they see who they get and then go through a second round if necessary. He said it’s fairly common to have kids come in for official visits in January. That’s late. So at least in her sport, the recruiting isn’t all done in junior year. D did fill out 2 recruiting questionnaires earlier–one at the beginning and one at the end of junior year, but phone contact just started.</p>
<p>All the other schools she is looking at have already had her schedule her official, so this seems late to us.</p>
<p>The GFG, I think what you imply is key. The timing of these contacts and invites is how you “learn” how desirably ranked your kid is. For instance, I understand that as of Sep 1 of junior year, they can begin sending “materials”. Of what kind, I have no idea. If that’s the case, if my daughter doesn’t receive any materials from them by Sep 1, that’s a message, and not a good one either.</p>
<p>D feels very unsure of the situation with Stanford for the reason you suggest, beawinner. Many schools have been working really hard for months to woo her, and Stanford is a newcomer to the scene. But the difference is that Stanford is at the very top of the athletic heap and probably doesn’t have to do what other schools do. They can let kids come to them… and beg! Also, D’s sport is more individual and objective (a time is a time), so there’s less need for coaches to travel to watch kids play or host sports camps and the like.</p>
<p>I read an interview with Jordan Hasay’s father. She is one of the best high school runners in history who will be a college freshman this fall. He said he was surprised that on July 1st she got only 5 calls. In general that summer, they were expecting the phone to be ringing off the hook, and it wasn’t like that at all–even for her. That tells me that sports like track and x-c, and swimming might work differently than the bigger profile team sports.</p>
<p>The GFG, at least you’ve had a conversation with the coach. We haven’t gotten there yet and may never depending on the competition. Meanwhile, good luck to your daughter. From everything I’ve heard, going through this process is quite the roller coaster. To protect her, we’ve told our daughter that only her grades matter (that and not getting injured) and that if things don’t work out with sports and Stanford, she will not close the door to being admitted to another high caliber university without sports. At the very least, this eases my urge to beg.</p>
<p>“Some highly recruited athletes get their application, test scores, grade transcripts, recommendations, etc in their junior year to the admissions department. They are often notified of conditional admittance to Stanford the end of their junior year. It is conditioned on the athlete continuing to get acceptable grades through their senior year and supplying all the additional information such as mid-year academic progress reports from their high school.”</p>
<p>How does this fit in with the NCAA rules about D1 recruiting?</p>
<p>kori carter did, shes a california track and field athlete.
signed early and everything.</p>
<p>Anyone in their junior year receive emails from recruiting coaches today?</p>
<p>You have to be amazing. </p>
<p>Being state-ranked is basically a prerequisite (especially for people in the less populated states).</p>
<p>I talked to someone who is playing Varsity for Stanford next year… she went around to coaches and signed early September. However, her coach was worried that she might not get in due to academics. It all worked out for her though.</p>