Again, this is incorrect. |
Please elaborate. |
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about? |
| of course they recruit. this is nonsense. |
DC is in, and the 30-40% lines up based on the numbers coach said he was supporting vs who got in. |
Sorry but you're wrong. At least for football and basketball. |
this person has posted before. apparently her son didn't get a spot. but sports are handled differently at all colleges, including MIT. MIT wins their division in several sports and it doesn't happen by accident. also, female sports (some) are easier to get admitted to than male sports. also, if you've done MIT and are an athlete, that's a big hook |
| how do i help kid move past being waitlisted? was so excited about gtech prior to this, now questioning everything and very upset.... |
| our high school only gets kids in via Questbridge or MITES. we get in a couple kids a year, but only through those paths. maybe once every few years a swimmer. |
Recruited? Or Admitted? This info is directly from a long time coach there who recruited my kid (kid stopped interacting after understanding there was no guarantee). Teammate committed to swim at JHU when the same thing was told to her. Bird in the hand. So this came from swim Coaches at mit. Who told you differently - Identify the MIT coaches. |
Ah, I see. You believe that anything short of a 100% guarantee is “no boost.” The rest of us, however, can see that even a 1-in-5 chance of admission is a substantial “boost” over a 1-in-50 chance of admission. |
DD was being recruited there. Those numbers (SAT and math sub score) were close, but higher than the recruiting bar for her sport. Not all sports have the same bar, nor the same “pull”? I wouldn’t make general statements that seem to apply to all recruits. Every school, not just MIT, the metrics needed are sport specific. |
we've all heard about how you know this one coach in one sport who talked to your one kid. we get it. |
women's soccer. its not a bird in hand. it wasn't during early round. if you wanted a bird in hand you had to go elsewhere. (although "committed to the process" is always the language). but it was a large boost. anyway, my dd graduated already. but the soccer coach is still there and I'm familiar. |
Your kid was unqualified? |