<p>Is it too late? I'm starting very late because I want to do 'pre-med' and I was thinking that it would be far too difficult to get good grades, have my ECs, research, etc. and play DI baseball at an Ivy League school. </p>
<p>I am only interested in getting recruited for Ivy League schools because academics is my first priority.</p>
<p>Please help me out, I'm really confused and don't know how to start or approach this. Also, I am Canadian.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0, 2300 SAT I, 760 Math II (retaking on 22nd because if I don't get recruited, I don't think 760 would be competitive for reg. admission as an international) and my baseball coach said that I can hit with these guys (my arm strength is a liability) but I have speed and could be a great player to come off the bench. </p>
<p>Thank you, I just don't know if I'm too late.</p>
<p>I feel a lot of stress and urgency so comments are so much appreciated!</p>
<p>EDIT: I'm a senior, as you can probably tell.</p>
<p>Umm yea, I would say it’s too late. You can e-mail the coach, but i don’t know when theyre going to see you play. Maybe you can get on some sort of list, worht a try. Shoot the coach an e-mail with stats and coaches number and stuff.</p>
<p>At this point, I would email AND call. Calling is the best way to get a coaches’ attention. You are probably too late for any likely letter things but you could get a small boost in admissions.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of kids getting late offers (as late as the spring of senior year) for Ivy League baseball. Not sure how the details of this would work out though - plus, I would imagine that you need to be very proactive at this point, trying to enroll in whatever last-minute Ivy League baseball camps are available (I recall Penn having a winter clinic in January; not sure if that’s still around). I wouldn’t count on anything happening though; all of them have their slots filled, barring those cases where things fell through for one reason or another, which is generally why late slots open up in the first place. If you’re still really committed to playing Ivy League baseball, either just get in the normal way and try to walk-on (understanding the risk on the athletic side of things), or take a PG year and go through the recruiting cycle again.</p>
<p>OK. I realize that I’m pretty late now for sure. </p>
<p>Is there a way that I could get a boost in admissions at least (and then after a year try to walk on if I’m so inclined)?</p>
<p>Like I’ve said, academics is my number 1 priority as a prospective ‘premed’, so even if my athletics can get me a boost to get into Ivys, I could always go from there. I could see how it goes year 1 with grades, ECs, etc. and figure out if I can manage DI baseball on top of that.</p>
<p>Let me know how I could possibly get a boost and what steps I should take regardless. I’m wrapping up my NCAA clearinghouse account, then tomorrow I will fill out all the recruitment forms, shoot out email w. contact, etc.</p>
<p>Viggy, the deadlines for your applications are either today or January 15. Admissions decisions then come out April 15. So your first priority is to give yourself a boost and submit the best application possible. Then, after your application is in, go ahead and call the baseball coaches at the Ivy’s where you have applied. Let them know your interest. Assuming your season starts March 1, you have time to continue communication and send video or stats or have your hs coach contact the college coach. Coaches only recruit players they have seen play, and you are going to find that difficult because they are playing their regular season too. So make sure you take video and post it to you tube and send coaches the link. </p>
<p>The good news, is that if you are accepted to any ivy of your choice, then you can try to walk on because you’ve demonstrated interested and showed talent to the coach all season long as a senior. </p>
<p>Many ivys have club teams. You can play club as well. Especially since, as you stated, your number one focus is academics.</p>
<p>you can get recruited late if you’re an amazing athlete. are you one of the best players in the country up there? are you well known in your sport?</p>
<p>consider taking a gap year, play baseball in the best club you can get on, and start the recruiting process on time, which is now btw. recruiting for ivy baseball for fall admission 2012 starts now!</p>
<p>Ah, seems hopeless. I’m going to just send out a few emails and see what happens. Then make some phone calls.</p>
<p>I’d definitely not taking a gap year because I want to go to med school and that process in itself is a tedious one. I’d rather not play at all than take a year off.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help everyone. I’ll see what I can do and keep you posted on here I guess. </p>
<p>However, my real question is now, how can I just get a boost in admissions? Forget about playing on the team this upcoming year, but is there any way to get a boost without being recruited (like, to actually play the next year)? That’s all I’m looking for right now. I’m competitive for these schools, but being an international kills me, so any sort of boost would go a long way.</p>
<p>You aren’t getting an admissions boost without getting recruited. And I don’t intend this with offense, but if you are only focused on an admissions boost and not the opportunity to play baseball at the next level then I don’t think a coach would be interested in supporting you anyways. Coaches want players who are staying on their teams.</p>
<p>^^^Agree with monstor344 - a coach who has no likely letters left can certainly write a letter of support about you for admissions which can obviously help. The big “however” though is that this is absolutely with the understanding/agreement that you will be a part of his team next year. I can’t imagine a coach would waste the time writing a letter of support for a potential player he has never met who may not even choose to walk on to his team - I am sure you can appreciate that.
Regarding slots on ivy league teams, I don’t know anything about baseball, but for some spring sports, yes, there are slots available. Again, the big “however” is that the student-athlete who is most likely to get one of those slots is someone who has already been on the coach’s radar, someone who is already known in their sport in this year’s recruiting class, someone whose initial choice fell through for whatever reason, and so another college picks them up. Pacheight is right about what you need to have to offer to be picked up at this point of the game. The later it gets, the more competitive it is.
Good luck with everything - it sounds as if your academics are already in good shape :)</p>
<p>I am aware of at least two athletes who were admitted off the waiting list (with some coaches’ support) and had to defer admission for one year.</p>
<p>When my kid found out that the pricey D1 schools athletically recruiting don’t want to give any aid, I joked that if we have to pay Ivy tuition, why not try the Ivy League? My kid walked into the offices of an Ivy league Coach and handed the secretary a packet with cover letter and clippings which were followed up with email to the coaches. A nice response came back that if admission was offered they would be happy to have the kid join the team! This implies no aid however, if that is important to you.</p>