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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Waitaminit, I thought athletes had it easy all the time and it was a cakewalk for them!  At least that's what I thought from reading this forum...[/quote]

Yep. The truth is that to be a recruited student-athlete at the DIII level an applicant has double the work and stress as a normal applicant. But of course folks like to attack before fully understanding the DIII process.[/quote]

Please. Setting aside the student’s “athletic career,” in the worst case, the athlete applicant has submitted its application and gotten the college’s coaches to put in a good word for the application; in a best case the coach’s support definitively gets the applicant accepted. Vs the thousands of non-athlete applicants (the actors, the flute a players, etc) that get no extra support for their applications in any scenario. [/quote]

Your perception is very far from the reality.  My performing artist will submit his performance resume, and complete multiple auditions. If he does well, he'll get extra support for his application from the music department.   At many of the schools he's likely to look at, the selection is almost 100% based on the audition, and a top musician has a good shot at getting into a school (e.g. CMU, Northwestern) where they'd never have a chance academically if they didn't have the musical talent.  In contrast, athletes still have to pass multiple academic hurdles to be admitted.

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I believe that. My DD has been passed over by two coaches so far, despite being on their "top 5 list" because admissions couldn't say she was likely, though she is very much in line with the stats for both schools. In her case, she is being held to an even higher standard as an athletic recruit. Completely unexpected and absolutely nothing she can do about her freshman year grades now. This garbage about athletes not being qualified is so unfounded.[/quote]

But saying "top 5" is no where close to saying "I will go to the matt for your kid."  And most everyone on this board understands that "being in line with the stats" is barely even table stakes as top schools.[/quote]

I generalized. At one, she was literally the first recruit they planned to commit last August. Does that make you feel better? I will admit, the second one, she was described by the coach as "in my top tier." At the first one, even the coach was dismayed to come back to her and said they couldn't even use one of their "spots" (this was a top 20 D1) because admissions said they needed first semester junior year grades. They were shocked, my daughter was distraught. Two months later, they requested a meeting with with her to say, basically, we decided not to wait and to give the spot to someone else. Sorry. We'd love to have you, but you'll have to get in on your own. She probably will get in on her own, but hopefully she'll have other options because she does not want to play there now. As to your last point, that's my point with this whole story: everyone wants to believe that athletes get in with dismal stats. It's not true. In the case of top schools athletes seem to be held to an even higher standard during recruiting.[/quote]

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