<p>If I'm an athletic recruit, would a coach be able to let me know about my admissions decision before they are released?</p>
<p>Yes, if they are offering admissions support/slot on team. You can call or email and ask when the coach will have an answer for you. Did the coach bring your transcripts/scores to admission and tell you how strong a candidate you are for admissions?</p>
<p>On the other hand if the coach says they’re waiting for the admission decision and gives the regular notification date for all applicants, or asks you to let them know when you have a decision, then the coach won’t know any sooner than you or the rest of the applicant pool does.</p>
<p>Some schools do not inform the coach (even if he offered a slot) about a recruit’s admission status before the official date. Ask about the school’s individual policy.</p>
<p>^^^Very true. If you are going the LL route, the coach will know right away when the letter gets generated, and sent from admissions. The LL is as close to a guarantee as you can get.<br>
If you are going the non-LL route, the coach may well not know until the official date, when the recruit finds out too. And with this route, even if you have been pre-read and approved by admissions, and even if the coach has used one of his/her slots on you, your admission is not necessarily a “sure thing”.</p>
<p>Actually, at least at one ivy, admission called our kid to let us know that the LL was ‘in the mail.’ The coach had not been informed.</p>
<p>That seems odd, you’d think the coach would know whether or not an recruit had been given a LL. In my case, it was the opposite. The coach was “quite confident” that I would get a LL since we talked about it after I sent my transcript + SAT’s. I freaked out all of December because one of my rec’s was missing so my app hadn’t gone through adcoms yet, despite coach’s reassurance. Eventually, adcom did call and two days later received a LL.</p>
<p>From what I know/hear about LL’s, they’re as close as it gets to ED at a non ED school.</p>
<p>A Harvard adcom called my D to tell her she had been admitted and would be receiving her LL in the mail. When she submitted her application, the coach had told her to let him know once she heard from admissions, so she was the one who told the coach. This seemed a little squirrely to me and might have been pure show. God forbid the public should ever think the coach has the ear of admissions. That could make people assume that Harvard athletes are sub-par academically and that would never do!</p>
<p>^^TheGFG - very funny 
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<p>With my daughter’s LL, I actually rang the coach just to ask if it really was on its way as she was being offered LLs by other ivies, and since we had been burned by another D1 school in admissions (non-ivy), I was too wary to take it on faith that the promised LL by this new first choice really had been generated, etc. before it was actually in our hands. The coach was able to confirm with me that the LL was literally in the mail, and told me the day that it had been mailed from the admissions office. So yes, this coach was aware of the timing every step of the way. The whole process happened, from admissions approval to the LL physically being in our possession, in under a week.</p>
<p>Well, to clarify: The coach was very confident that the LL would materialize. Our son submitted the application very early in October and got the phone call about 5 days later, relatively late at night. We assumed that the coach knew, but when our son asked him a few days later how to interpret the wording of the LL, which by then had arrived, he acted surprised. I don’t think it was all for show, but who knows.</p>
<p>your daugther had MULTIPLE Ivy LLs? I didn’t think that was possible/allowed. Which sport? gosh, i would be so happy with one (well, one special one I covet, lol) that that would be it for me, but congrats to your D!</p>
<p>The situation I’m asking about is a coach wants me, but we’re waiting on admissions from D3.</p>
<p>To: mayhew –</p>
<p>You wrote: “With my daughter’s LL, I actually rang the coach just to ask if it really was on its way as she was being offered LLs by other ivies,”</p>
<p>your daugther had MULTIPLE Ivy LLs? I didn’t think that was possible/allowed. Which sport? gosh, i would be so happy with one (well, one special one I covet, lol) that that would be it for me, but congrats to your D!</p>
<p>An applicant can receive LLs from more than one school.</p>
<p>I had read in here that this was nearly impsossible without bending the truth somewhat along the way (I assume as in saying to a coach X Ivy is my #1 choice … and later, Y Ivy is my #1 choice). Then again, I am new to all this and just going off what a very astute senior member in here said. Please correct me if I now have the wrong impression. Thank you.</p>
<p>Tallgirl, it’s not unusual for several different schools to “offer” LLs to a top prospect. Most recruits will elect to receive only one, as most coaches don’t want to part with the LL without some assurance the recruit is planning on attending.</p>
<p>thank you for the clarification varska! I hope that’s how it works as I;d be bummed if someone “took” my LL by getting 2 different college coaches to officially issue them 2 LLs!</p>
<p>^ Yes, that could happen and most would consider it ethically questionable. I can also see how it could happen w/o anyone acting in bad faith.</p>
<p>Tallgirl: sorry, I have been away, so haven’t responded. My daughter received LL OFFERS, but she only ACCEPTED one - hope that clarifies it!! There was one ivy that did offer her a LL knowing that she was talking to other ivies that she might choose over them, and were still giving it to her knowing that she might not take it. However, the LL that she did accept, & wanted more, was generated so quickly that it came to her first. So, she told the ivy that was going to send her one regardless not to send it as she wouldn’t be going to their program. So, only one LL was sent to her, & that is to the school she will attend Hope that clears it up! No matter how many LLs you are offered, it is best to just accept one, with the one exception being what my daughter experienced - that is, if a school says they are going to send you one anyway without you having given them a full verbal commitment - then they are doing that knowing they are taking on the risk of you not using it.<br>
Good luck with your process through this :)</p>