Can I start a thread for recruited athletes for 2026.

[Anonymous]

like to hear athletic scholarship amt and sport

I’ll go first

track - 40%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED? Yes, ED to a SUPER reach. Passed preread but still a toss up. So have a back up plan to get started if bad news. Applied to plenty of other schools EA so will certainly still have solid options regardless, but this would be a great chance to play sport at reach school.
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2? D3. Had D1 mid major offers but picked academics over (still a solid academic) D1 offer.
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much? No. This D3 high academic does not give much merit aid and it is a reach in any event so not going to get any $$ and that is ok.
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

. . Yes and no. Does not matter to us if they play all 4 years. More concerned that the school itself may not be a good fit (again, a reach school) so not worried about the sport. This is a dream school academically and the sport was the hook. DC took in all the information and weighed pros and cons and decided to give this school a shot, with the knowledge that it may be a tough hill to climb academically.

Is this MIT? I'm not aware of any other school where you pass the pre-read, have the coach's full support, and it's still a toss up at admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED? Yes, ED to a SUPER reach. Passed preread but still a toss up. So have a back up plan to get started if bad news. Applied to plenty of other schools EA so will certainly still have solid options regardless, but this would be a great chance to play sport at reach school.
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2? D3. Had D1 mid major offers but picked academics over (still a solid academic) D1 offer.
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much? No. This D3 high academic does not give much merit aid and it is a reach in any event so not going to get any $$ and that is ok.
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

. . Yes and no. Does not matter to us if they play all 4 years. More concerned that the school itself may not be a good fit (again, a reach school) so not worried about the sport. This is a dream school academically and the sport was the hook. DC took in all the information and weighed pros and cons and decided to give this school a shot, with the knowledge that it may be a tough hill to climb academically.

Is this MIT? I'm not aware of any other school where you pass the pre-read, have the coach's full support, and it's still a toss up at admissions.

The other one like that is Caltech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED?
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2?
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much?
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

Yes
D3
Yes, about 20% of TCOA
Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s some advice for the uninitiated, as a parent of a former D1 4-year athlete.

Coaches don’t care about your child. They don’t care if your child gets injured. They don’t care about academics. They own your child and demonstrate that 12 months a year.

Most of the freshman athletes you join the team with will be gone by graduation. The transfer portal makes it easy for decent athletes to leave. Coaches will also tell less talented athletes to leave. Some will just quit. Others will get career ending injuries.

Just because your child got a scholarship doesn’t make them safe. Coaches will torment them. They might make them quit. They’d certainly bench them. The coaches take their responsibility to replace players with better players very seriously.

Your child will get injured, a lot. It will be a constant theme. Pre-season and the actual season takes its toll. Every year they remain on the team, the more damage they’ll do to their bodies. Concussions, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow injuries happen. There is always a push to get players back to practice faster than necessary. Athletic training rooms are like M.A.S.H. units. Make sure the AT facilities and personnel are excellent or your children will suffer.

Athletic teams haze. You’ll don’t hear about it, but they do.

You’ll see your children less than the parents of NARPs. Athletics gets in the way of holidays, milestones and vacations. When you visit your children on campus you’ll be lucky to get a few hours with them for dinner depending on the sport, team culture and academic rigor.

D1 athletics are a mental and physical grind. Generally the benefits outweigh the costs, but that’s far from guaranteed.

Don’t exaggerate any athletic success in a college sport. Universities all post readily available statistics. People can see if your child isn’t contributing.

Athletics are a full time job. Make sure both you, and your child are ready for it.

Also will add that do not think that the coach that recruits your athlete will remain in the position. Coach changes for many reasons is quite common so athletes and parents should never get attached to the specific coach.

For D1, the important thing you need to consider is that if you don't follow the old coach to wherever they go...it's likely you won't remain on the team. Especially if you are a current recruit. If the coach who recruited you leaves and you will be a freshman next Fall, you need to find a new school because the new coach will be dragging all of his / her recruits over.

Of course...any athlete that is in the top 3% of the top 1% of athletes has a different experience...as all coaches probably want them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED? Yes, ED to a SUPER reach. Passed preread but still a toss up. So have a back up plan to get started if bad news. Applied to plenty of other schools EA so will certainly still have solid options regardless, but this would be a great chance to play sport at reach school.
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2? D3. Had D1 mid major offers but picked academics over (still a solid academic) D1 offer.
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much? No. This D3 high academic does not give much merit aid and it is a reach in any event so not going to get any $$ and that is ok.
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

. . Yes and no. Does not matter to us if they play all 4 years. More concerned that the school itself may not be a good fit (again, a reach school) so not worried about the sport. This is a dream school academically and the sport was the hook. DC took in all the information and weighed pros and cons and decided to give this school a shot, with the knowledge that it may be a tough hill to climb academically.

Is this MIT? I'm not aware of any other school where you pass the pre-read, have the coach's full support, and it's still a toss up at admissions.

The other one like that is Caltech

The "ED to a SUPER reach" can't be MIT because MIT doesn't have ED. MIT is known for not guaranteeing anything to athletes, and the EA only option facilitates this. There is no binding agreement if they get in, and there is no restriction whatsoever on where else they can apply. So they may have a slight advantage (coach support) but there is no disadvantage, they way there is with REA/SCEA and, to a lesser degree, ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED? Yes, ED to a SUPER reach. Passed preread but still a toss up. So have a back up plan to get started if bad news. Applied to plenty of other schools EA so will certainly still have solid options regardless, but this would be a great chance to play sport at reach school.
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2? D3. Had D1 mid major offers but picked academics over (still a solid academic) D1 offer.
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much? No. This D3 high academic does not give much merit aid and it is a reach in any event so not going to get any $$ and that is ok.
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

. . Yes and no. Does not matter to us if they play all 4 years. More concerned that the school itself may not be a good fit (again, a reach school) so not worried about the sport. This is a dream school academically and the sport was the hook. DC took in all the information and weighed pros and cons and decided to give this school a shot, with the knowledge that it may be a tough hill to climb academically.

Is this MIT? I'm not aware of any other school where you pass the pre-read, have the coach's full support, and it's still a toss up at admissions.

It can happen at Swat if you are significantly below the mean. Still a much better chance than at MIT but it does happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

I have seen this happen at a mid-major D1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

I have seen this happen at a mid-major D1.

To ride on this, did anyone find the head coach of Wesleyan’s men’s soccer kind of unusual? It’s a D3 school competing in NESCAC with strong academics and sports. The team lost 5 or 6 players last year in addition to seniors who graduated. DC got invited to send a transcript for pre-read but never heard back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

I have seen this happen at a mid-major D1.

To ride on this, did anyone find the head coach of Wesleyan’s men’s soccer kind of unusual? It’s a D3 school competing in NESCAC with strong academics and sports. The team lost 5 or 6 players last year in addition to seniors who graduated. DC got invited to send a transcript for pre-read but never heard back.

It may be about the athletics department and not just the soccer team. They had an interim baseball coach this year and didn't hire the new coach until September. The interim coach was actively recruiting DS, but then the communications became very vague once the announcement was made about the new coach. He felt like they were stringing him along, so he committed elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

I have seen this happen at a mid-major D1.

To ride on this, did anyone find the head coach of Wesleyan’s men’s soccer kind of unusual? It’s a D3 school competing in NESCAC with strong academics and sports. The team lost 5 or 6 players last year in addition to seniors who graduated. DC got invited to send a transcript for pre-read but never heard back.

It may be about the athletics department and not just the soccer team. They had an interim baseball coach this year and didn't hire the new coach until September. The interim coach was actively recruiting DS, but then the communications became very vague once the announcement was made about the new coach. He felt like they were stringing him along, so he committed elsewhere.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED? Yes, ED to a SUPER reach. Passed preread but still a toss up. So have a back up plan to get started if bad news. Applied to plenty of other schools EA so will certainly still have solid options regardless, but this would be a great chance to play sport at reach school.
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2? D3. Had D1 mid major offers but picked academics over (still a solid academic) D1 offer.
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much? No. This D3 high academic does not give much merit aid and it is a reach in any event so not going to get any $$ and that is ok.
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

. . Yes and no. Does not matter to us if they play all 4 years. More concerned that the school itself may not be a good fit (again, a reach school) so not worried about the sport. This is a dream school academically and the sport was the hook. DC took in all the information and weighed pros and cons and decided to give this school a shot, with the knowledge that it may be a tough hill to climb academically.

Is this MIT? I'm not aware of any other school where you pass the pre-read, have the coach's full support, and it's still a toss up at admissions.

I was this poster. Not MIT but the school is a reach for my DC. My DC who was surprised they passed the pre-read so we are definitely not counting our chickens. I have read about NESCAC recruiting where sometimes admission does not come through even where athlete passed the pre-read. We went in with eyes wide open and DC has not publicly announced or told anyone they (secretly) committed to this school and applied ED. So, if DC gets in, yay!, if they do not, we move on to other schools.

[Anonymous]

NESCAC depends on school and team, some coaches have 99% success rate with admissions, others do not. Get insight from coach how many she/he recruited but didn’t get actual offer. Unfortunately NESCAC admissions is not a sure thing like a D1 recruited athlete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:like to hear athletic scholarship amt and sport

I’ll go first

track - 40%

What division?

Please everyone, include division as that is extremely relevant. As is the type of aid. Merit or financial.