<p>"I had 1B, 3Cs and 2 Ds 9th grade second semester...cool..not"
Bearcats these are your grades? I'm wondering how you manage the gall to put down other people when these are the grades that you produced. You have bee n exposed. Now go back to the college forum where you belong.</p>
<p>huh? that was my 9th grade grade when I stopped giving a damn about school because I knew I was gonna go to hotchkiss beginning 10th grade.... and I have been on honor roll at hotchkiss.. so you can shut your face</p>
<p>didn't give a damn?Bearcats, were you feeling lazy or not academically motivated? I have exposed you as being a hypocrite and one with obvious prejudices. My job is done here . Now if you continue i will have no choice but to use more of your own words to show you how ridiculous you sound.
Test me.</p>
<p>I dont get why you guys are jumping on bearcats,
What he said are simply mere facts and you guys are just tied up on the political correctness crap... </p>
<p>First, bearcats never said ALL the players are dumb jocks, in fact, he wasnt the one who used the term, if you refer back. But anyway, speaking as a varsity lax player at deerfield, I have to say, most of my teamate WONT get in if they werent recruited. Some of them dont even give a crap about school, to put it that way. Are there anyone who do well in school? Yes. But there are kids who get in purely based on their athletic merits. </p>
<p>"Bearcats, were you feeling lazy or not academically motivated?"
Senioritis, well..the middle school type of senioritis i guess, is different from constantly ignoring school work. Almost every senior at even top BS slack their last semester, but most of them DONT slack throughout their entire high school career.</p>
<p>Everyone ought to let this issue go...if only so that this thread doesn't keep popping up to the top of the board unless there's an answer that's related to the original question about the way information about interests in activities can be misinterpreted as a proficiency in those activities (and, conversely, whether a school's follow-up inquiries indicate that they've misconstrued an applicant's level of expertise/proficiency). I still think THAT'S an excellent question and would like to see more of what people think on both sides of that equation. This other "debate/tangent" is like pounding nails into my eyeballs.</p>
<p>D'Maker, If the posts on this thread bother you, don't read it! Obviously, it's an interesting topic to many given the number of posts. There is a lot of good information about how athletes are recruited.</p>
<p>Well, this thread started out with a legitimate question, so it's a thread of interest. But it has been hijacked and the conversation is getting repetitive. I would love for there to be a thread where people can run up against brick walls trying to persuade others that their view of prep school recruiting is the all-knowing view...because I would ignore it.</p>
<p>I'm still hopeful people will answer the question here as to what communications mean...and whether coaches read too much into an applicant's interest and whether students need to correct what may or may not be a false impression of an applicant's proficiency/excellence in a particular sport (or other extracurricular activity).</p>
<p>Hey D'yer,</p>
<p>In my experience for prep football and hockey a coach will KNOW how proficient an applicant is. They are not going to rely on the applicants word. Most prep coaches will at the very least demand gametape(DVD,cassette) and in most cases will see the athlete play in person before going to adcoms on the applicants behalf. That includes that top QB (future PG) that plays in California,Texas or California. Guess who pays for that :). Hope that gets the thread back on a track you can stomach.</p>
<p>Our experience in girls hockey has definitely been that coaches want to either see for themselves or if there is a third party who they know and trust who has seen the player play they would talk to that person. For instance, the girls hockey coach at Greenwich Academy runs summer clinics for girls that my daughter has attended. I know at least one of the coaches at the schools my daughter has applied to (and I am suspicious more than one) have talked to him about her. Of the four schools she is applying to one coach has seen her live, the other three all asked for DVD/tape and two of those three may still see her live in the next few weeks. We do though live a bit closer than California or New York. Seems highly unlikely that coaches would put much weight on student opinion or expressed interest alone.</p>