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[quote=Anonymous]This is what happened to my athlete at an Ivy:
1. Kid sends transcript for pre read to admin
2. Admin talks to coach and either gives thumbs up or down depending how good athlete is and how much coach wants kid
3. Coach makes offer of likely letter - could be ED or RD.
4. Kid tells coach yay or nay. 
5. In our case, this is our first kid through this process. Remember coach has been through this process multiple times. And we the parents are not talking to the coach in this process - all between kid and coach. We get the summary from kid after calls/visits.
- coach offers my kid RD likely letter but tells DC to apply ED if DC accepts
- DC thinks bird in hand is worth two in bush so accepts
- DC applies ED and gets in without likely letter
-Coach then able to use likely letter to recruit another athlete: win win for coach as now coach has 2 athletes he wanted for team but only used one likely letter (coaches are allowed limited number of likely letters depending on sport)

So what we would never know is if DC was strong enough to get in academically/EC without any hooks, could DC got into other schools? [/quote]

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