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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what is worth, I know of a tennis player with SAT score above 1500, top academics with highest rigor, ranked around 100 in the nation with coach's support but was still rejected by MIT.  This is recent.[/quote]

Did the person apply early decision? For D3, it's best to apply ED1/2 if you are being recruited. We were told by D3 tennis coaches that our daughter needed to apply early decision or the coach would not be able to influence the admissions process. They said that if she went regular decision, she would enter the general pool of applicants and her recruitment status would no longer be a pull. They did a "pre-read" (meaning they looked at her stats) and told her she was guaranteed admission if she applied ED. I'm not sure they were supposed to say that out loud. There are NCAA rules around D3 recruiting that are not always followed very precisely. For example, D3 schools aren't allowed to give full athletic scholarships, but then they sometimes offer recruited athletes tons of financial aid.

Basically, my kid was told: ED1 or ED2 and you're in automatically; go regular decision and your tennis status will not factor into the admission process, other than being considered a nice extra-curricular.

She got into her dream school ED1, and it made her senior year so pleasant to get the college application stuff out of the way early and without stress. [/quote]

MIT doesn't have ED, and I don't think they have pre-reads, slots, or guarantees.  She applied EA as an athletic recruit.  From what I hear MIT and Caltech does not lower the standards for athletes one bit.  She definitely had the qualification to do the work at MIT academically.  The only thing I can think of why she got rejected was because MIT was not a perfect fit.  Her ECs were mostly in business, but no STEM ECs and MIT is really a stem school.  Maybe, her essasy were lacking, I don't know.

My DD went through the D3 recruiting circuit this past year, got interest from mid to lower NESCAC schools, and other excellent academic D3s.  Ultimately, she chose to apply to an Ivy league school ED, which accepted her and she plans on playing club tennis next Fall.[/quote]

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