<p>Post #34 At least in girls lacrosse, the Ivies are announcing early commitments themselves. There is a blog where recruiting is tracked by graduating year, and as soon as the 2016 list opened, several of the Ivies posted the (then) sophomores who had committed. You can tell that the school posted them because they are assigned a number and Brown has 4-5 in a row, Harvard too.</p>
<p>Of course many things can change between sophomore and senior year and the likely letter, but the schools feel strongly enough that they are making these offers 2 years before they can even do a pre-read. Some of these 10th graders may have taken an SAT or two, but most haven’t, haven’t taken a AP class or test, only have 1.5 years of grades.</p>
<p>I knew students who announce they were rowing for Yale when they were only juniors too. And they did.</p>