<p>I am currently applying for fall of 2015 and i intend to play squash during my years at college. I was wondering how effective is a recommendation from the coach to the admission office .</p>
<p>It’s almost impossible to say for certain. In my opinion, anything less than a Likely Letter (Ivy) or being told that your application is being supported (selective D3), is not very valuable. But I’m sure there are exceptions.</p>
<p>You should ask the coach. My son asked and was told how many received that level of support last year and how many were accepted. Of course, you may not get such a straight answer, but you don’t know until you try.</p>
<p>Coaches only use their valuable and limited favor cards with admissions for an outstanding player they are really trying to pull in to their team. There are a lot of factors at play such as which sport, whether scholarships are at play, the grades of the recruit versus school standards, etc. The coach recommendation can mean everything to a well funded sport or mean virtually nothing. It is ok to ask the coach if he has any sway with admissions and if he is willing to help (if you are actually being recruited). The coach’s preference is to get players that would qualify into the school anyway, and just send over a nod to admissions, versus “the favor” which is letting in a kid that academically wouldn’t otherwise qualify. Those are for the superstars.</p>
<p>I’m assuming the OP means a letter from the college coach to the admissions office?</p>
<p>It depends on the school. And you say “intend to play” - do you mean that a college coach recruited you and wants you to play for their college? Or do you plan to play once you get there?</p>
<p>No I mean I am trying to get recruited by coaches to play in national championships.</p>