<p>Anyone have any information on MIT baseball? How hard is it to get onto the team? MIT is Division III, but it is that much worse on the ball field than Harvard and other Division I Ivies? </p>
<p>Any info. on how hard the pitchers throw would be great and 'stats'/'pop time'/other info. they'd look for in a catcher.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Truthfully, your best option would be to contact the coach, Andy Barlow on <a href=“mailto:anbarlow@mit.edu”>anbarlow@mit.edu</a>. He would be able to advise on what the team is looking for, and to answer any specific questions about the team.</p>
<p>The website for MIT Baseball is: <a href=“http://www.mitathletics.com/sports/m-basebl/index[/url]”>http://www.mitathletics.com/sports/m-basebl/index</a></p>
<p>thanks, yea, I was going to contact the coach later on (late June/early July) but I am trying to gather some preliminary information to see how I would rank and if I had a decent shot at getting recruited. </p>
<p>Any more comments and info. are much appreciated!</p>
<p>Don’t wait. Do it right now. The worst thing you can do in the recruitting process is to wait too long. If you call the coach right now, you may not be on par YET but it would give you an idea of where you need to be earlier.</p>
<p>Also, try not to be too formal with your contact. There’s no need for form letters or stuff like that. Just call or e-mail the coach and be a person. You are more likely to get real information. And although every coach looks for stats, many of them will also look at an athlete’s personality to make sure that he will mesh with the team.</p>
<p>OK, and since DIII schools don’t give out athletic based scholarships, do they kinda ‘cheat’ the system and give you a lot of aid in terms of Academic aid? (as in, while you deserve some aid, they try to give you extra to make you go there)</p>
<p>I don’t know if other schools do, but MIT doesn’t – MIT’s financial aid is completely need-based and has nothing to do with anything other than the applicant’s family’s finances.</p>