The only school that even offered S19 a pre read was Kenyon. Came back super positive (coach said way above the A band). We are full pay so we didn’t get a financial read and it wasn’t his place to discuss merit aid although S19 did end up getting $20k per year in merit upon acceptance. I’m 100% sure that merit had to do with his academics and not his running.
As for the thread above and Bowdoin, the Bowdoin coach was very clear in his initial email to us that he has no pull in admissions and that S19 had to get in on his own. Now, that was just the case for our son and not all runners. A current rising senior at our high school HAS been contacted by this same Bowdoin coach and is being officially recruited. I believe his 800 time is 2:02 but his 1600 time is 4:24. I think his three mile XC time is about 15:20. But the coach was honest with us and never mentioned getting a pre read for our son. We hoped his continued positive emails throughout senior year were a positive sign but we didn’t count on anything.