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[quote=Anonymous]At highly academic schools, coaches send information about athletes to admissions and get feedback.  That feedback might be "Yes, you can use one of your spots for this player", or "Maybe, you can choose a couple players at this level, but not all of them."  or "Yes, if they bring their GPA up, or get a certain test score" or "No, they don't meet our standards".  Then once they have that information they choose who to admit.  So, they might decide your kid is good enough to admit if they are a yes, but not if they are a maybe.  Or they might submit for two goalies but only accept one.

There are some situations, like Duke Basketball, or Stanford swimming (these are guesses, just naming teams where they play at a very high level) where a coach might be given a lot of leeway, but that doesn't mean that the squash team gets the same leeway.  There are other schools, like Ivies, or NESCAC, or JHU, where there isn't much leeway at all, and athletes need to be academically pretty similar to unrecruited admitted students.

There are a few schools, like MIT and Caltech, where a coach can encourage admissions to take an athlete but it's not a sure thing, even with positive preread.

So a preread doesn't mean he's in, but multiple prereads means he's got a good chance of getting into one of them.

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