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[quote=Anonymous]My DS is a baseball player.  From his freshman year, he attended showcases/tournaments.  At every tournament/showcase he attended, there were multiple D3 coaches watching him.  Since their recruiting rules are not as strigent as D1, he was receiving communication from D3 coaches as early as the summer between his sophomore and junior year.  He had significant interest from D3 coaches.  They would approach him at tournaments and talk to him, send him texts and emails.  DS also saw quite a few schools when going to these tournaments.  So by the spring of his junior year, he knew what type of school he wanted.  The interest was so strong that if he was not interested at all in the school, he would ignore the texts/emails (for example, he had no desire to go to school north of the DMV.)

Fast forward to the summer between junior and senior year.  I know DS received at least four verbal offers from coaches (those were the ones he told us about.)  He only seriously entertained two of them.  One was a very high academic school, extremely low admission rate.  DH and I talked to the coach and asked him point blank if he had looked at DS' grades.  DS is not a "stupid jock" but in this area, he is an average student (B+) and pigs would have to fly before DS would ever get admitted to this school  But the coach really wanted him and assured us that the school was holistic and looked at the entire student.  So he sent in an unofficial transcript for a pre-read.  As suspected, a couple of weeks later, he found out he would not be admitted.  The other school he seriously considered, we knew he would be admitted on his own accord.  But he also did a pre-read.  We received a pre aid package (which ended up being more than the pre-read.)  He did ED admissions - the only school he applied to.[/quote]

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