Longtime lurker, first time poster.
Does anyone know the timing of feedback for pre-reads and the dates for athletic recruit weekends at Amherst?
Thank you.
@ThankYouforHelp might have some info. But you don’t say which sport and I assume that’s relevant.
The top recruits are offered the first visits. The coaches are generally very straight forward. You need to ask the coach where you stand and whether you will get support. Only serious candidates are brought in and during that visit the coach will tell you where you stand and whether you are willing to apply ED. You must apply ED to get support. nywestie what band do you fit into? A band applicants cost the coach very little while B band and C band applicants need to be very strong near D1 players. Are you familiar with the banding levels?
S preread for baseball in late August. OV early Oct to fit S’s schedule, but Coach had more or less guaranteed his spot after the preread. in August. S would have been A band, declined ED and applied SCEA Yale where he matriculated.
with or without a likely letter?
@SAY, if you are asking me, S was not offered a recruit spot by Yale. He got in SCEA as a non-recruit. Other than our state flagship, the only school he applied to was Amherst RD without athletic support because he was weighing whether or not he wanted to continue bb. He was admitted to Amherst but chose Yale.
BK congrats on that but I don’t think your experience is good advice for most applicants. These threads for the most part are about the best strategy for applicants to gain admission to the elite colleges. As you surely know once an applicant is admitted to Amherst they don’t have to play though it will be a negative to their supporters if they don’t play the first year. But after that it’s up to them. As I have said before this discussion is about gaining a spot at an elite college not whether the applicant really wants to play a sport long term in college. In truth D3 sports is less intense than many of the very top club teams as far as time commitment and D3 is vastly different than D1. I had a child offered a recruiting spot at Amherst after a visit and the coach told my child that school came first and that in a pinch missing practice for exam studying was understood. In a D1 program that would never happen. This thread was started because someone wanted to understand how NESCAC recruiting visits were structured to help his son.