<p>There has always been a debate about whether an Ivy coach will risk letting a high academic top recruit try to get in on their own in order to preserve a LL slot:</p>
<p>Copied this from another post that lifted it from a Yale Daily News article:</p>
<p>“Barbara Reinalda, head coach of softball, said the number of recruiting spots allotted to her team has also dropped over the last few years, from five to six slots per year to about four, depending on the number of players that graduate each year. **** She added that she does ask recruits with competitive grades to apply on their own so that she does not have to use one of her recruiting spots.”****</p>
<p>However, Varska followed up and posted this;</p>
<p>"I took the liberty of contacting Coach Reinalda and asking her to clarify her statement in the article. She graciously replied,</p>
<p>“Actually what I said was “if they were not one of my slots. Like if they were number 5 on our list then we ask them to apply on their own. . If they are top on our list they get one of my slots
Hope this clears things up for you””</p>
<p>I continue to think that if a coach has 5 LL slots and you are in the top 5 recruits, the coach will not risk throwing you into the general pool.</p>
<p>If you are number 6 on his list, that is a different matter. That is the concern people are expressing for OP.</p>