<p>3togo, I’m glad things worked out well for you!</p>
<p>MaineLong- Congratulations on your son’s two acceptances! How great to have some options in hand. Even if he chooses the DI sans running, he has a great future ahead of him. (I think it is harder on the parents, than the student if he/she ends the sport. So much psychic energy has been consumed and exerted by the parents. Sometimes the athlete is just ready to move on and focus on careers and studies.)</p>
<p>Running is a life sport, after all, and no one will stop him from running…Congrats, Maine, it’s been a long year for you and your S.
He should go where he feels he will be academically happier…</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice and encouragement! You’re right, DS didn’t seem terribly distraught at the idea of NOT running competitively. I just have to remember that, whatever happens, all this energy has not been exerted for naught. We needed to explore all the options.</p>
<p>I would like to chat offline</p>
<p>^I sent you a PM</p>
<p>Does anyone know what a “3 day quiet period” is? Coach mentioned something to my son who is a swimmer that he wont be able to talk to my son during that time…also told him that he wont know anything til April 1st! I thought for sure this particular Ivy school did “likely letters” but the coach told my son that a liason is working with admissions and probably wont know anything til then! Doesnt this sound totally different then everything you know about the recruiting process?</p>
<p>No point in asking for a likely letter at this late date. Ivy acceptances will go out in a couple of weeks, and then you’ll know. The likely letter is sort of like a gentleman’s agreement LOI- in almost all cases, the student agrees not to apply anywhere else in exchange for admission. You might as well wait until April 1, and then look at all acceptances and make a decision. The coach is “telling” you no likely letter, IMO. Hang in there. It’s a long couple of weeks…</p>
<p>In response to this question: “Doesn’t this sound totally different then everything you know about the recruiting process?” - I think it’s just that it’s later in the process than what we’ve typically been talking about on this forum. If an Ivy is recruiting in the summer before senior year and fall of senior year, then likely letters come into play, but if decisions are being made in March, then all available likely letters have probably already gone out and you’re waiting until regular decisions are available. Not too much longer now though - hang in there!</p>
<p>Does anyone think I’m on the right track? I have a 4.28 GPA / 4.0 (I’m a freshman). I have Great EC’s (student government, volunteer work, debate, math team, NJHS president, etc.) I am pretty good at my sport (all district for JV as a freshman, most likely playing varsity next year, team most improved award, team mot coachable award, hardest worker award, statesmen award, etc.). </p>
<p>How am I looking???
Any advice on where to go from here (any camps?)</p>
<p>Your doing fine, get on varsity before you worry about camps.</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>^You’re doing fine, but realize that if you’re in the ballpark academically it’s more or less going to come down to your basketball skills, unless you get in without support an can walk on. So it’ll be important for you to get on varsity and get noticed by coaches, while maintaining your grades and getting strong test scores.</p>
<p>Also, you’re a freshman. It’s great that you’re thinking about your future so soon, but don’t let this become an obsession (not saying it is), and don’t plan your life, or ‘dream life,’ around one school or a league of schools. You’ve got three years until applications are reviewed and a lot can change between now and then. Do things you love and enjoy the ride without putting too much pressure on yourself; you’re more likely to succeed in your endeavors and have enjoy your high school years.</p>
<p>Play AAU basketball and start going to showcases. It is NOT to early. While it is true that you should not perseverate on this, you won’t achieve your goal if you don’t give it your all. Recruiting for DI does begin in earnest the summer between sophomore and junior years (even for Ivies, particulary in certain sports). Keep your grades up, but to make the team, you really have to stand out as an athlete.</p>
<p>several of these threads by the op have the same trail…</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard the Ivies vie to keep the AI of athletes withing one half of a standard deviation of their regular students. This is on average, however. For example, my friend got a likely for track to Harvard with a high G.P.A. (like a 4.6) but a 1910 SAT and worse SAT II’s. From what I’ve seen, if you’re a student interesting in the Ivy League in the first place and are a world class athlete, you pretty much have it made.</p>
<p>Ok, maybe I shouldn’t have found this site because it’s all starting to make me very nervous. My son has 1350/ 2010 SAT’s, 4.1 GPA with AP’s, honors, etc. It’s not a great profile, but I thought it was good enough for an athletic recruit. He is a fairly strong athlete, definitely not NCAA All-American, but his current performance in his sport would break at least one record at Harvard and more within other Ivy League schools. He could very well win an event at conference his freshman year. Although he has had a good bit of communication with the Harvard coach, surprisingly, he’s never been asked his SAT’s, which were just posted online today. Although we were disappointed, we thought they would be good enough. I know that there is more allowance for a lower AI if the athlete is a strong enough athlete, but how strong is strong enough, especially for a nonrevenue sport? There are definitely a lot better athletes out there than him, but I don’t know if they are interested in Harvard. Can someone give me some insight? </p>
<p>Also, this is already his second time to take the SAT, so he won’t be taking it again. Should he take a stab at the ACT?</p>
<p>^ I knew the specific IVY recruiting rules a few years ago and they went something like this … recruits have to fit into banks … in rough terms the recruiting bands are roughly equivalent to a standard deviation from the average recruit … the majority of rectruits need to be in the first band … as you move out bands less recruits are allowed. The school can decide how to allocate the slots within a band across their sports … some schools will favor lacrosse while others football for exampke … so in general to get one of the few slots far away from the average admit the athlete pretty much needs to be a high impact recruit in a high profile sport (think star QB as opposed to back-up field hockey goalie). It sounds like he would be a strong athletic recruit but that given that SAT score he would need to be able to use one of the few slots a couple bands away from the average admit (Cornell probably has the lowest average SATs in the IVYies and they are about 2100). If your son is very interested in the IVYies I’d suggest trying the ACT and another go at the SATs.</p>
<p>Landed, from the information you give, I think your son has a great chance. My daughter met people on her Ivy recruiting visits with SAT’s in the 1800-2000 range. So a 2010 SAT is good enough if everything else is good also, which it seems to be.</p>
<p>Thank you. That makes me feel a little better, but of those recruits in the 1800-2000 range, did they get accepted?</p>