If your swimmer was recruited...

[Anonymous]

I have a couple of questions. My DS (a rising senior), has 3 official visits coming in the fall. If your DC has been through swimming recruiting, can you provide any insight into whether they also applied to other colleges as a backup? My DS would be happy at any of schools where he has OV, but we are frankly unsure whether we should be pushing other non-swimming schools to cover the bases (in case he does not get in to the 3 schools). DS has already passed pre-reads, but one of the pre-reads put him "in range" whereas the others it seems pretty clear he will get in. These are not top-top schools. Mid-tier universities or SLACs. A mix of lower D1 and D3. Insight welcome!! TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a couple of questions. My DS (a rising senior), has 3 official visits coming in the fall. If your DC has been through swimming recruiting, can you provide any insight into whether they also applied to other colleges as a backup? My DS would be happy at any of schools where he has OV, but we are frankly unsure whether we should be pushing other non-swimming schools to cover the bases (in case he does not get in to the 3 schools). DS has already passed pre-reads, but one of the pre-reads put him "in range" whereas the others it seems pretty clear he will get in. These are not top-top schools. Mid-tier universities or SLACs. A mix of lower D1 and D3. Insight welcome!! TIA.

Have you received offers from any of those coaches? Have they asked you to apply ED?

[Anonymous]

Our DS did not only applied to schools he visited on recruitment trips. I believe he ended up applying to three and was accepted to those three in October of his senior year.

[Anonymous]

Definitely apply to a safety.

[Anonymous]

Usually they will have an offer in hand in the fall - if not still time to apply to other schools. Usually if coaches go to the trouble of spending money on an official visit, they are fairly serious suitors.

[Anonymous]

Yes my recruited swimmer did apply to a safety (UMD). They were Covid year 2021 and did not get visits and did not ED.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I'd apply to at least two safeties. One where your kid is sure to get in and you know the coach would love to have them walk on to the team and one that's appealing to your kid if they don't want to swim (i.e. career ending injury during senior year) and you know they could get in (maybe they want a big state school if they weren't swimming).

[Anonymous]

Please talk to people who have actual experience with the recruiting process. My DS will be swimming D1 this year and went through the recruiting process junior and beginning of senior year. Once he did the pre-reads and the OVs, he received offers from the schools. He decided and committed to a school to which he then applied ED. The pre-reads are pretty accurate. There is no need to apply to safety schools if you are applying ED with coach support. Applying ED is committing to go to the school if kid gets in. If your DS doesn't receive any offers and does not have coach support, then he is in the regular application process.
Going on OVs is a strong indicator that the schools are interested in your son.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like we are in a different position, but for perspective...

My 2024 swimmer gave a verbal commitment to a D1 program in late fall 2022. They will only complete the one application, with a designated "recruited athlete" code in the application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like we are in a different position, but for perspective...

My 2024 swimmer gave a verbal commitment to a D1 program in late fall 2022. They will only complete the one application, with a designated "recruited athlete" code in the application.

Do you mind sharing if there is a scholarship involved? And sharing the basic terms of the scholarship (not exact details)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like we are in a different position, but for perspective...

My 2024 swimmer gave a verbal commitment to a D1 program in late fall 2022. They will only complete the one application, with a designated "recruited athlete" code in the application.

Do you mind sharing if there is a scholarship involved? And sharing the basic terms of the scholarship (not exact details)?

Yes, there is a specific portion (think line items) of college cost being covered by the team the first year with the opportunity for more in later years based on contribution/performance. Additionally, there is money from the conference that goes to each athlete. I am not sure the exact path of this money, it may be credited to the student account for the balance (there are almost no full rides in swimming) or come to the student directly for expenses.

All money is coming through athletics, no merit. I am not sure if the school allows “stacking” because the merit bar is very high for OOS students.

[Anonymous]

This is OP. Can anyone chime in if their swimmer has gone on an OV but NOT gotten an offer? It's hard to thread the needle and DS is down to final three schools but totally possible none will give an offer despite each one inviting for OV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like we are in a different position, but for perspective...

My 2024 swimmer gave a verbal commitment to a D1 program in late fall 2022. They will only complete the one application, with a designated "recruited athlete" code in the application.

Do you mind sharing if there is a scholarship involved? And sharing the basic terms of the scholarship (not exact details)?

Yes, there is a specific portion (think line items) of college cost being covered by the team the first year with the opportunity for more in later years based on contribution/performance. Additionally, there is money from the conference that goes to each athlete. I am not sure the exact path of this money, it may be credited to the student account for the balance (there are almost no full rides in swimming) or come to the student directly for expenses.

All money is coming through athletics, no merit. I am not sure if the school allows “stacking” because the merit bar is very high for OOS students.

This is what happened with our DS. They also covered his meal plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Can anyone chime in if their swimmer has gone on an OV but NOT gotten an offer? It's hard to thread the needle and DS is down to final three schools but totally possible none will give an offer despite each one inviting for OV.

It's very rare that a swimmer is not given an offer after an OV unless something goes wrong on the visit. It does not seem likely that your swimmer will be left empty handed.

[Anonymous]

My DS did 3 OV and got three offers. I don't know of any examples of OVs not resulting in an offer.