<p>I thought it might be helpful if people could let everyone know what months official visits are offered for the sport in which their child participates.</p>
<p>Baseball - ?
Football - ?
Swimming - ?
Lacrosse - ?
Rowing - ?
Soccer - ?
Basketball - ?
etc.</p>
<p>September for Ivy baseball, but frankly most Ivy baseball recruits don’t wait that long. They typically have other D1 offers they are considering, and don’t want to wait that long. They’ll typically do an un-OV if it is driving distance. Most of the OVs I hear about are recruits that have to fly in.</p>
<p>Swimming September through mid October. I think most Ivy League sports offer OV during this timeframe. You cannot go on an OV until after the start of your senior year per NCAA rules and most Ivy League coaches like to have OV done before the ED deadline of Nov 1.</p>
<p>For football I believe official visits can start Sept 1 Senior year.
Oct visits are given to the top recruits who coaches typically ask to apply Nov. 1 EA/ED.
But visits continue through Nov, Dec, Jan & possibly even Feb.
National Signing Day is first week Feb, so a lot of players commit in Jan.
There are also athletes who commit without taking any official visits.</p>
<p>I have wondered about Ivy football OVs too. Since OVs are not allowed until Sept 1 and by then the football season is under way, and most FB recruits are applying for EA/ED, it seems OVs for recruits from outside the northeast would be impossible (especially if the recruit’s HS games are on Saturdays).</p>
<p>So I was assuming that many football recruits end up not making OVs - is this true?</p>
<p>Fall athletes still do OVs- XC athletes often have meets on Saturday mornings. We live in the west and many times students (including mine) have left the meet to go the airport and fly to New England. </p>
<p>They spend time on the campus on Sunday, visit classes on Monday and fly home Monday night. It’s actually not a bad schedule. College students are usually doing a light practice and studying on Sunday (and not partying on Sunday night) so the prospect should bring school work and plan to get some homework done.</p>
<p>Getmoreveggies is correct- Ivy league football teams offer OV in Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb. Many football recruits attend these OV.</p>
<p>Lacrosse – OVs for the committed recruits in Sept and Oct. Lax recruits very early so most of the kids on the OV have already committed and maybe even received their LL (my daughter and a friend had when they went on theirs). To me, it seems like more of a victory lap than a fact finding tour. The unofficial visits occur anytime outside of season and that seems to be more of the time when each side checks the other out.</p>
<p>With some kids taking football OVs in Jan and Feb and the RD ap deadline throughout the Ivy League being 12/31 - 1/1, I’m assuming the late recruits have all submitted complete aps prior to their OVs - can anyone verify?</p>
<p>Varska- The only Ivy football recruit I know (who was accepted at Princeton) completed his RD application before the deadline.</p>
<p>Sidelines- Some athletic recruits feel differently about official visits. Missy Franklin waited to complete her OVs before committing to Cal even though her future college coach, Teri McKeever, was also her Olympic coach.</p>
<p>I’ll bet it varies by sport. Track/XC athletes go on the OV’s, usually without offer of an LL, with both sides checking each other out. LLs are generally offered at the end of the visit or in the days following, if it’s gonna happen. </p>
<p>It seems to me that coaches want to be confident that the rest of the team approves of the recruit and that they can work with the athlete. They also want to be sure that the recruit has had a good chance to evaluate the school and team and will accept, before making the offer. </p>
<p>I’ve seen Ivy recruits in this sport continue to make visits into January and get LLs in Feb if the team has unfilled spots…</p>
<p>Varska - I can confirm that in January and February the Ivies actively recruit and extend offers to football players who have NOT submitted applications to the school.</p>
<p>If I had to guess, I would say that with the possible exception of Harvard, each of the Ivies have much less than half of their team committed by now (early January).</p>
<p>Whatever active Ivy football recruiting takes place in summer and fall is focused mostly on D1 level players who are weighing the Ivies against D1 schools offering full scholarships, and most of these recruits fall in band 1 or 2 (the lowest).</p>
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<p>would you mind if I shoot you a PM?</p>
<p>SKD – not many of our kids are Missy Franklin! Lacrosse is just ridiculously early in recruiting and, unfortunately, most kids are settled at the larger D1 programs sometime between the end of their soph year and the start of their junior season in Spring. It’s nuts.</p>
<p>Sidelines- The recruitment process for swimmers also occurs early. College recruiting for top ranked age group swimmers occurs while they are in middle school. Many elite athletes (those that are ranked 10th or better in the US) are very particular about their training facilities and coaches. If they have good grades and test scores they can pick and choose which colleges they will attend. They use the official visit to critically evaluate and compare different college teams. Most Ivy League athletic recruits choose which school they will apply ED/EA/SCEA to following the OV.</p>
<p>SKD – yes, thank you. I get your point. You know a lot about lacrosse?</p>
<p>Sidelines- not very much.</p>
<p>Two pieces of antecdotal info:
Princeton Football recruit last year (D’s friend) had an OV in Nov/Dec but was already verbally committed and a LL in hand before applying early. The OV was more like a victory lap.
My D is a rower who had an OV in early Sept to Cornell but wasn’t ready to commit to them and applied RD. LL arrived this week. This OV was clearly more fact-finding on both sides.</p>
<p>In both of these cases, the kids had UVs to the schools prior to the OVs and ongoing contact.</p>
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My son’s situation was similar. Chose a college after his unofficial visits and applied in September. Took an OV in October but LL was already in the mail.</p>
<p>To clarify, “LL in hand before applying early” doesn’t seem right. Ivies can’t issue LLs without a full application.</p>