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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In case people are unaware, there were plenty of recruits that were rejected from MIT yesterday. Coaches do not have the weight people assume they do (unless maybe it's different for certain sports - can't speak on all of them), but for the sports I know having worked in college athletics, it is not "a threshold" that they have to meet, it's "THE threshold" that everyone else does. Being a student-athlete is the same as someone with an incredible story, work opportunity, community-changing activity etc. It is just one of the ways you set yourself apart from an incredible pool of applicants. What you bring to the table is a talent that you will use to represent your school on the national stage. I wish people wouldn't downplay what it takes to be part of a very small percentage of student-athletes that gets to compete at the college level, let alone at the top schools in the country. If everyone could do it, they would. Just like if everyone could get a perfect score, speak several languages, play an instrument at the highest level or overcome a challenging upbringing or life experience, then all applications would look the same. It's easy to make assumptions about these kids and what they have gone through to get to where they are, but I always think it's  better to ask questions if you haven't experienced it first hand 🤷‍♀️ [/quote]

Recruits for likely most sports were accepted during EA.  Anyone deferred to RD basically lost any recruiting bump.

I don't know if that is true.  My friend's son is a sport recruit (D3) and was deferred EA and just got in.  Was told by coach he was pulling for him and thought he could still get him in.

I gather there are a few sports that don’t follow this calendar…but football, baseball, basketball, soccer and many others were determined in EA.[/quote][/quote]

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