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[quote=Anonymous]Some misinformation going on here:

No one has gotten a definitive decision, unless it's a rolling admissions school. That doesn't mean an athlete cannot be confident in where they're going. Obviously, the more selective the school, the more hoops to jump through.

To start:

Athletes may post "commitments to the admission process," meaning they will applying ED (or only) to a certain school. That may start to happen as early as early Junior year.

Schools (again, unless rolling) will not issue an admissions decision until the same time as all admissions decisions for that type of admission (ED, for instance).

Ivys and some other schools will issue "Likely Letters" that are as good as an admission decision, but still have the caveat that they're NOT admissions decisions. But, once someone gets one of those, they can rest easy. It says, in a nutshell, "you're getting in, but we can't tell you until we tell everyone else." This helps coaches and athletes rest easy that all is good. These are only issued after the full application is submitted.

Before submitting an application (usually summer before Senior year), an athlete will probably have had an academic pre-read. Assuming it comes back positive, that's great too - but it's a "assuming these grades/scores stay the same and your application has no problems, you're getting in." But, it's not as firm as a Likely Letter, because someone can still mess things up - for instance, maybe the athlete gets a terrible LOR or doesn't bother to do the required essays, etc.

So it's:
1) Commitment - coach and athlete fall in love, and commit to the athlete applying and playing/completing there. As part of this, coach will probably ask for transcripts/scores just to make sure athlete is in the zone of admission. 
2) Pre-read - someone who actually has the authority to judge whether someone is in the zone of admissions says "looks good" (or not).
3) Assuming pre-read was good, athlete applies (ED if it's offered) 
4) Athlete gets Likely Letter (if Ivy or a few other schools) - this helps everyone sleep easier until mid-December, and athletes get to rest super easy if they submit well before the deadline and thus get the Likely Letter before other schools' deadlines (relieves anxiety of applying to only one school)
5) Athlete gets in, notified at the same time as everyone else.

That said, athlete (or anyone) can post on a high school commitment site, because those sites are typically run by students and there is no verification required. So, if someone is posting at this time of year to a school that is not rolling, it's probably because they got a Likely Letter. Even then, I think they're unwise to post that they've been "admitted" - because they have not.[/quote]

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