<p>Covers Ivy recruiting, making tapes to show coaches, and end results.</p>
<p>In</a> this game, you're often not sure of score -- ChicagoSports.com</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that the Yale coach would lead the student to believe that the coach had the power to assure acceptance; maybe the student heard something that wasn't said? The student should have known that only the admissions office has the power to admit in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I would bet many students have believed this type of assurance assuming his account is accurate. The coaches may downplay the hurdle of admissions.</p>
<p>This kid had nobody actively recruiting him until his dad started sending out tapes...so I don't see how he could be that amazing that all the Yale coaches offered him a spot on the team in June and assured him that he'd be accepted. After all, its Yale!! Something sounds very off, including the part about the email from the admissions office in November that he was rejected. I just think the article may be unfair to Yale.</p>
<p>These are from the Ivy League website: "Admissions decisions will be communicated only by official written notification from Admissions Offices, by notification in Early Action, Early Decision or “regular” processes, or by “likely letters” after October 1, which are confirmed by one of those notifications. No other indication of a possible positive admissions result is or should be considered reliable."</p>
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<p>In our experience, it was quite the opposite. My D was recruited by Yale, as well as other Ivies (obviously not for football), and the coaches made it very clear that although she had the stats to be admitted, the decision was ultimately the admissions office's to make, NOT theirs. Something is fishy about this story.</p>
<p>Oh, that reads like the stories that get printed in a newspaper where the "journalists" know little about recruiting rules. File it with the BS reports of athletes attending an Ivy League school on an athletic scholarship or a ... merit scholarship.</p>
<p>Yale is notorious for leading on recruits.</p>
<p>I agree with Muffy and Bay. My d is a Yale (and other Ivy) recruit as well, and I've spoken with parents of other current Yale athletes, especially in September and October when we were trying to understand this process. Yale coaches "talk to" many athletes, but are clear about communicating that the student must have a complete file, evaluated by admissions, before any assurances about acceptance can be made, including a likely letter. It sounds like this kid didn't understand what was being said and assumed wrong.</p>
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<p>That is a good point, xiggi. Recently, our local paper reported on a high school football player who had supposedly been offered a "full scholarship" to play football at Harvard. I remember thinking, that's kind of embarassing for the family because it sort of reveals that their income is probably below $80,000 per year. I emailed the sports reporter and informed him that the player must be getting financial aid because Ivies don't give athletic scholarships and why don't sports reporters know that? Anyway, the next time he wrote about this kid, there was no mention of his football "scholarship."</p>
<p>^Ivy League coaches can and will work with financial aid offices to augment packages for kids they really want. Those same coaches can go back the next year and change those packages if a kid quits, as it's their only real avenue of retribution.</p>
<p>Awful? Yes. True? Yes.</p>
<p>As much as we would like to think that coaches (especially in the Ivy League) obey all of the rules, they don't. And, in the interest of drawing kids away from schools who can guarantee admission, some will make promises they cannot always keep.</p>
<p>The kid had a 3.97 gpa at a very good high school. I think he probably knew what he heard. You really believe coaches in a major sport don't stretch things a bit. I watched the kid's video and he has some real ability. He would not be going to UW for football if he did not and he would have been a potential elite player for an Ivy team. A few years back a guy who could not crack the 3 deep at QB for UW went to Yale and was All Ivy.</p>
<p>Well. his dad is a documentary filmaker. Like Michael Moore. So the film probably does a good job of persuasion!</p>
<p>The article said he "stopped speaking to other recruiters once he chose Yale." He had absolutely nothing in writing from Yale. Dad did a good job on the film, but should really have researched NCAA and Ivy recruiting rules if he was serious.</p>