Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 22:48     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
hearing the DIII NESCACS are harder to get in over most Ivies!
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 22:44     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Yes, always go where you are wanted and cast a wide net do not limit recruiting to just D1. Make sure check out DIII and DII schools too!
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 22:11     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Coaches don’t change their minds this late in the process. The lax community is small and coaches know their commits would never trust them if they engaged in such behavior.

A last minute rejection, well after all the pre reads and interviews have been completed, means something unexpected was flagged to the admissions dept. A late transcript discrepancy or essay issue is my guess.
That is why at Ivies or high academics are so difficult to get in… Glad all these kids found spots! There were lots of changes on boys and girls 2026 class all over the country so it happens every year. The good thing is looks like all the ones I saw Yale to Brown, Harvard to Penn, Penn to UVA got in on ED at the school they switched commitments to based on the schools HS college decision instagram page. There are many more but those are the ones I knew switched commitments.


Not hard if they really want you.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 22:09     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:Coaches don’t change their minds this late in the process. The lax community is small and coaches know their commits would never trust them if they engaged in such behavior.

A last minute rejection, well after all the pre reads and interviews have been completed, means something unexpected was flagged to the admissions dept. A late transcript discrepancy or essay issue is my guess.


sure they do. they let admissions give the bad news and move on.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 14:46     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Ivies you commit to the admissions process not just commit to the school and they let you in.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 12:17     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:Coaches don’t change their minds this late in the process. The lax community is small and coaches know their commits would never trust them if they engaged in such behavior.

A last minute rejection, well after all the pre reads and interviews have been completed, means something unexpected was flagged to the admissions dept. A late transcript discrepancy or essay issue is my guess.
That is why at Ivies or high academics are so difficult to get in… Glad all these kids found spots! There were lots of changes on boys and girls 2026 class all over the country so it happens every year. The good thing is looks like all the ones I saw Yale to Brown, Harvard to Penn, Penn to UVA got in on ED at the school they switched commitments to based on the schools HS college decision instagram page. There are many more but those are the ones I knew switched commitments.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 09:54     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
For high academic schools, athletes are counseled as part of the recruiting process that they will be matched against incoming students and admissions is not 100%. It’s probably more like a 95% admit rate and 5% will get rejected or deferred.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 09:45     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Coaches don’t change their minds this late in the process. The lax community is small and coaches know their commits would never trust them if they engaged in such behavior.

A last minute rejection, well after all the pre reads and interviews have been completed, means something unexpected was flagged to the admissions dept. A late transcript discrepancy or essay issue is my guess.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 22:29     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Coach changed mind and let this happen.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 19:47     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:Its rare, but it happens, especially at the very top schools, e.g., Harvard, Stanford.


Girls side happens a lot at Stanford
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 16:12     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
It is known to happen at MIT. No that rare there.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 15:14     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:It’s quite common. Coaches know that the marginal academic prospects they recruit may not get through Admissions. It costs them nothing to have the prospect submit an application.

You really never know where your kid is on their priority list. Or how much Admissions is incented to accept athletes who are marginal academic prospects.


This.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 14:08     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Harvard, Yale and Princeton have higher Academic Indexes than the other Ivy's so yes, they are harder to get into as a student athlete. Other things can also impact admissions like recently at a different school supposedly a recruit submitted an application with AI generated essays so was denied admissions and ending up at an ACC school.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2025 12:41     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:A few 2026 girls went from one Ivy to another after they did not get in to original school.


Is it really that much easier to get into Penn than Harvard? Is this based on the schools recruit class as a whole possibly and what the grades of the other recruits that they may have wanted more had? I truly have no idea but have been very curious about this situation.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2025 19:24     Subject: Recruited D1 but got rejection letter
Anonymous wrote:It does happen but I think the coaches try to help you find another landing spot--another team that was originally recruiting you that has lower academic standards.


This is mitigated at most schools with savvier coaches who require at least a soft pre-read of the transcript. It avoids these sorts of surprises, but having gone through this with two kids, I've only heard of this happening two times in the last 8 years or so that we've been watching things - at least to kids in our area. One was Duke and the other Stanford. Stanford was as described above - coaching change and the other was a Petri issue of pretending he was still at Hopkins.