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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure the coach actually has influence. At some schools "recruited players" at not accepted (looking at you Haverford). It's rare, but some kids have been burned by this...
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Haverford is a DIII sports school. With any DIII school the NCAA does not mandate that verbal commitments from coaching recritiment is binding. It is with DI and DII but not DIII. All this is explained on the NCAA website.

This means some DIII coaches may have influence with their school's admissions office while others have absolutely none and the recruited athlete/applicant must apply and be admitted to the school completely on their own as any other applicant. I am in the middle of this now with my kid and his teammates and as of present there have been 4 situations where one of the boys had prior rec'd a verbal commitment to play their sport from the coach at the school and in the end the recruited athlete did not make it through the application process by being admitted to the school. So while they may have a roster spot on the team waiting for them, they are not able to take it as they in the end did not gain admission to the college. Unfortunately it is not as uncommon as you think. [/quote]

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