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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about high academic D3's? Do coaches know in advance? [/quote]

Basically, everyone knows in advance - but it can be unwise to go fully public (like posting on a high school college commitment site) because things can happen. Only at the Likely Letter stage has an admissions officer said "yes." Even then, technically something could happen. But, at that point, the "yes" is based on an actual application. So, athletes are advised to wait until decisions are released, for everyone.[/quote]
Even at elite academic schools like Williams, Chicago or MIT? [/quote]

As I understand things, Williams and Chicago would be a yes, MIT would be a no. MIT is known for being a bit more pure in this way - have heard the same about CalTech, although my athlete did not interact with them so I can't say for sure (they did have contact with a lot of NE schools, including MIT, as well as Chicago). Ended up at an Ivy.[/quote]

MIT cares far more about sports then CalTech, but they are upfront to recruits.  They will tell say 6 basketball recruits that they are supporting all 6 but in any given year, usually 4 get accepted.  All 6 are strong basketball players, so they are fine with the two they lose...but it's not 100%.

CalTech famously hasn't won a conference men's basketball game in like over 10 years and usually at best only wins 1 game overall. MIT was the 2024-2025 D3 national champion for Women's Track & Field, Women's XCountry and Women's Swimming and Diving, and is competitive across all D3 sports.[/quote]

Yep = I'm the PP, and this is a good explanation. Again, my child did not talk to CalTech, but they heard from peer athletes that it's like MIT. This sounds like it might be even more so. This works because MIT doesn't have ED. So those 6 theoretical basketball players can all apply other places too. I think CalTech has REA, so that is a little trickier, but people can still apply to publics early, including the full UC system. So recruited athletes at these schools are likely not applying to only one school, or if they are, they should do so fully aware that they might have to send out RD apps if they don't get in. [/quote]

I guess though I distinguish the two schools in that MIT will accept a strong basketball player that only has top grades/scores and nothing else, over a worse basketball player that may also have won Math competitions or published research...while CalTech will pick a kid that has won the Math competitions and has all the accolades and by the way, kind of knows how to play basketball.

The MIT basketball coach would be fired if they had even one season where they went 1-24...while the CalTech basketball team never wins more than 1 game on average and again, hasn't won a conference game since 2011.[/quote]

More like an applicant who (like other applicants) has top grades/scores, won Math competitions, published research AND IN ADDITION is a strong basketball players. MIT has an enviable pool of extremely qualified applicants larger than available slots. [/quote]

Not really.  Plenty of MIT athletes have little more than high grades and high test scores.  They need to know you have the mental chops to do well, but the school (and definitely the coach) don’t care if your sport was your EC[/quote]
This is correct. [/quote]

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