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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. The people who really, really love TO the most are D1 coaches of men’s sports that are played internationally. It means they can now recruit young men who have been semi-pro in their home countries regardless of how paltry their high school education was (and often, it was very paltry) because there is no objective academic measure to be met. No 18-year-old US senior can compete against a 22-year-old semipro who doesn’t have to get a minimum SAT score any more, so TO is changing the face of D1 recruiting very quickly. Men’s swimming, water polo, tennis, golf, soccer, basketball, hockey, etc. are all impacted by this. [/quote]

This is fascinating.  Do you have any additional information or links to articles?

This will also apply to women’s sports as well I’m sure.  [/quote]

Just look at the sharply increased rates of international recruits on D1 teams, particularly the non-revenue sports, that track the rise of TO.

In the past, universities used non-revenue sports admits to bring up average incoming SAT scores for athletes as a whole. Essentially coaches in these sports had to look at SAT scores, which eliminated a lot of international applicants. Now that’s gone. The coaches only have to look at GPA which is almost impossible to ascertain for foreign academies, particularly the sports academies a lot of these folks attend.

TO has significantly changed the face of D1 athletic recruiting for non-revenue sports in particular, especially combined with the changes to the junior transfer protocol. The upshot is that academically solid athletes who used to be D1 material as high school seniors are now only competitive for D3 for men’s sports. It’s not really an issue on the women’s side. [/quote]

Curious if this specifically applies to international applicants.  Strangely enough, for top academic D3 (Chicago, MIT) and Ivies, the coaches demand test scores for at least my HS junior.  I thought this was a way for schools to specifically prevent their coaches from allowing all the athletes to go TO.  Luckily he plays a sport that doesn't have the type of international competition referenced above.[/quote]

This is a D1 issue not a D3 issue. [/quote]

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