2024 Athlete Ivy pre-read response?

Turbotwins24
Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:33:00 +0000

TonyGrace:

If your kid gets a higher score, the coach has the flexibility of getting someone else with a lower one since they can’t dip billow a certain number.

Ha! That is what we keep telling our kid as he groans to gear up for a last round of tests before ED apps: “It can only make your team better”. I think they must be hedging bets about what happens between verbal commits, official pre-reads, and early admissions decisions, as his sport’s 24 class is fully recruited but it’s all verbal commitments at this point of course, so anything can really happen. Especially at a school with no athletic or academic scholarships . We still have coaches of other schools asking my kid to give them a call if “anything changes”, which is to be expected.

TonyGrace:

Sounds like they may be trying to institute AI back to its former glory. I still haven’t gotten a clear picture of how they are treating it. Each coach gives a different vague answer.

I agree, though this is my first and only experience with Ivy recruiting, it sounds like what I read had been previously done. But with the 4 different Ivy schools that recruited him, it seemed each one had a different policy, but of course we did not go as far to pre-reads with the others.

trackmom2024:

I’m curious - what is an ACT minimum that Ivy’s or NESCACs look for in a pre-read?

It seems to me that it is very dependent on the school, the sport, and how badly the school wants/ needs the athlete . I did get the sense that there was a “floor” but IDK what that would be.