<p>College Coaches, that is...</p>
<p>If you are playing a Div. 1 Varsity sport and you finish your undergrad degree but still have 2 years of eligibility left, can a college coach lobby to get you into a grad program at the school you are attending like they would lobby to get you into undergrad?</p>
<p>(Sorry for the long sentence)</p>
<p>I don't believe sports have anything at all to do with grad admission whatsoever; and that the notion of a college coach lobbying to get you into a grad program is unheard of.</p>
<p>I would check <a href="http://www.ncaa.org%5B/url%5D">www.ncaa.org</a> for the specifics.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure in D1 players can use their 4 years of eligibility in a 5 year period. There are quite a few 5th year players in college who are in grad school ... so obviously some athletes compete as both undergrad and grads.</p>
<p>How the specifics work I do not know. Given the transfer rules I would think it's fairly unusual for someone to play at different schools as an undergrad and a grad. I do no know the rules around admissions on these cases but I would think the odds of acceptance are pretty darn good if a scholarship starter who in graduating as an undergrad in 4 years and has a year of eligibilty left applies to an associated grad school of his ungrad school.</p>
<p>I don't know whether it helps in admissions or not, but it is not unheard of for an athlete with a year or two of eligibility left to compete for their grad school, even when it is a different school from the college.</p>
<p>Here is an example of a guy running cross country for Univ. of Minnesota while enrolled in the law school after having already run for Stanford during his undergrad days. He had one year of eligibilty left:</p>