Yes Cinammon, thx - I am happy and can’t believe my good fortune to have these options - looking to take advantage of this opportunity and make most of it. And this is where I can talk about it, because I’m not the type of kid who will ever post the “I am proud to announce that I will be be continuing my academic and athletic career at XXD3 school”. And thanking parents coaches etc - just a different way to humble brag online - and I just find it kind of disgusting to tell the truth.
Biggest concern at this point in the process might be an injury which affects your ability to perform as an athlete.
Would be unfortunate, but happens. Lucky for me sports is the reason I’m getting in, but not the reason I love the schools!
Geez lots of schadenfreude on CC! Learned that term yesterday and boy it fits on this site
Schadenfreude is pleasure at another’s misfortune.
Some here are suggesting you wait for it all to be sealed and official, locked down.
About injuries, isn’t it only a concern for the next year at most? Once he gets to campus, isn’t he in the clear for the next four years? (Pardon my ignorance about athletic recruiting, mine are not potential recruits!)
Once I get admitted it’s no longer a concern. And not that I would ever hide it, but only way coach would know if I’m injured between now and mid December admission decision is if I told him. So admission very unlikely to be derailed by an injury
Awesome, @jackhenry1 . Congratulations, and by the way your dad is right.
Effectively all colleges honor a commitment to a recruited athlete – with or without scholarship – even if the athlete has to retire from his/her sport before (s)he reaches campus and even before being admitted.
Btw, the California legislature has moved closer to approving [[i</a>] payment *](California passes bill allowing athletes to be paid for name, image and likeness)for its colleges’ athletes. The NCAA is livid.
Well, there are tales of athletic scholarships (at schools that provide them) being revoked if a kid can no longer play. Leaves those kids in the lurch, when other FA isn’t enough or it puts a family into a higher EFC than they can manage.
OP sounds bright, will likely be fine, academically.
What makes you think they’re “delusional”? Have you seen their applications?
Going by our school’s track record. Few get into ivies except for occasional legacy. Certainly not every kid in the top 25 of class. Valedictorian last year blah blah ivy blah blah ivy - then rejected. She’s now at a solid top 60 state school, which is fine, but not a top 10 ivy.
Not to harp on it, but my ex girlfriend is ranked 5 in class. Her college list includes Columbia, Hopkins, Cornell, and Penn. Good test score like 34 ACT but ECs avg just clubs etc. She had one of my two LACs on her initial list, then took it off - kinda messaging it was below her. She has ZERO hooks, and in my opinion would be shot down at my LAC. Tough dose of reality coming - as I hear all the time at home, this is a game and you need to understand the rules in order to win. Having zero hooks with scores stats in middle 50% is blah
@lookingforward . . . that’ll only hurt the college which dropped the athlete and give it a bad name for not remaining loyal. I agree with your seeming inference though that the situation depends on what level the sport is. If it’s bigtime college athletics – Div I football, basketball, women’s soccer, women’s beach volleyball – then word would spread if the college didn’t follow through with its commitment. I was only partially joking with respect to the last sport I mentioned; it’s really popular in CA.
Edit: Sorry . . . best of luck to you in your future, @jackhenry1
Some things about this post just make me wonder a wee tad. What kind of GC “has never heard of your liberal arts colleges”?
You are committing to the admissions process at D3 before your acceptance letter is in hand but nothing else. The coach cannot guarantee you anything per NCAA . Maybe he has pull this year, maybe the AD has shifted tipped slots to another gasp girls team. You would not know. And you don’t know who else he is talking to. Nor do you know where you are in the athlete admission banding process (assuming it is NESCAC). OV happen all the time and are very preliminary in D3. They do not have the same connotation as D1 where a verbal offer and NLI are forthcoming and you are limited to 5. Take as many OV as you want in D3. I have seen it blow up and I certainly would not be laughing all the car ride home at your valedictorian.
Perhaps one in a typical high school where college bound students usually attend the local community college, local non-flagship state university, local private college with big discounts (that is not known outside of the region), or a religious college of their religion, and “top students” usually attend the state flagship if they and their parents can afford it.
K Waverly, here goes - GC comment “I’m not familiar with that school”. What should I have said? Bulk of every graduating class goes to state publics, CC, and 2 adjacent state schools. Naviance shows that 1 kid from my hs has EVER been accepted to each of the schools I’m looking at, and I have no idea how long that goes back. Let’s just say they are far from targets hmmm? And regarding certainty of admissions, why don’t you google “lacrosse commitments”. Couple of sites report these, with one site lists over 200 “commitments” to D3 schools from class of 2020. 17 listed for Denison alone. Sooo, it’s pretty common for kids with full coach support to have a reasonable expectation of admissions - these kids all certainly do.
And I’ve been told by both coaches that I have a “slot”. Can’t comment as to whether or not all of those 200 lax players have slots (including the 17 from Denison), but I expect to be entering the admission pile with one. I’ve been told that some sports like x-country etc only get one or two slots at most elite D3s, so maybe not as common with some sports
Meaning that if you weren’t an athlete they wouldn’t be targets for you either? I hope things work out the way you want, but I wouldn’t congratulate yourself just yet. Have your parents asked for a financial pre-read at this school or run the Net Price Calculator? An acceptance that isn’t affordable may as well be a rejection. And just because you think your ex-girlfriend will get rejected by “your” LAC it doesn’t mean she will.
But @jackhenry1 said that EVERYONE at his school is dreaming of Ivies blah blah blah and that his own ex GF had one of his two schools on her list. It’s just hard to believe that the GC hasn’t even heard of these top schools.
Be happy for others who do get into their favorite college and sad for those who don’t.