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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I missed it but I haven’t seen an answer as to if this is a binding offer or if the school can change their mind. It seems really early unless a player is USWNT material. And do schools review apps from an academic perspective before junior year?[/quote]

I am sorry -- what?  Not OP but you do not know this?[/quote]

Not PP, but they are right. I hope everything works out for OP's daughter, but a verbal commitment is not binding and the school (or the athlete) can back out for no reason without penalty. Some schools can use an academic review to cancel a verbal. She seems to be a talented athlete, so she'd find a place to land if that happened, but I personally would be cautious and not buy all the school merch yet.[/quote]

For women's soccer (which is different from other sports) for D1 you can commit on June 15 after your Sophomore year.  So she will be a rising junior.  D3 can commit anytime but that does not happen.  In reality there is an order to this.  From June 15 after Sophomore year until the start of school Junior year, most but not all of the top girls commit to the Power 4 and other D1 top soccer schools.  Girls also commit to their D-1 top school or dream school if outside P4.  Other D-1s get in the picture at this time (D-2s after this).  By the start of school Junior year the top girls are mostly sorted and the next tier of girls are recruited and commit to P4 and other D-1s.  This process continues until after ECNL Florida in January where the last big wave of D-1 commits commit.  Even the P4 still has some after this but they trickle in.  As does other D-1s and D-2s.  D-3 is divided into two groups -- the high academic D-3s (UAA and NESCAC and some others) and the rest of D-3.  The high academic D-3s have identified their top prospects at the start of Junior year or before.  This is often the same pool of girls as the D-1s but because of academics the girls are not going to take a mid-major D-1 or someplace like Ole Miss.  They would take an Ivy or a top academic p4 school (Vandy, ect.).  The high academic D-3s lose girls to these.  But by January/ February of Junior year this is sorted and the high academic D-3s move in.  Some can make offers then while others need to wait for end of year Junior year grades.  After they are sorted the rest of D-3 gets sorted.  Random fill ins happen all during junior year and into the start of Senior year when set.  Most girls have offers by the start of Senior year but there are some that do not.

In terms of grades, most D-1 schools don't care as long as your are doing ok.  The ones that care are in constant touch even after commit.  The high academic D-3s care.  They need your info to get admissions approval.  When admissions have what they need they send a likely letter to student.  You still have to keep grades up.  They can pull and will if bad grades.  But if you get a likely letter it is super rare that you would not be admitted.

Commit is just that.  Not binding.  Very rare for school to pull but it does happen.  A new coach coming in could result in pulling of offers.  Coach was fired at one of my daughters top schools -- she did not go there but we watched and in that case none of the commits was dropped by the new coach but it could happen.  Kids changing their mind happens more frequently.

Once you are admitted early decision so by mid-December senior year -- you are in.  They could still drop you from the program at any time of course but you are in the school.[/quote]

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