Academic pre-reads at LACs

cinnamon1212
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:05:29 +0000

Washington and Lee University does pre-reads.

Why not just have your son ask the coach if the school has a pre read process with admissions?

Coaches all will want grades/scores to know they aren’t wasting their time with a recruit that has no chance of getting in. This is not the same as a preread.

Not all schools do prereads. The coach at the University of Rochester told my son they didn’t usually, but if we really wanted that reassurance the school would. That coach had been there 25 years and said he was comfortable knowing what would pass muster with admissions.

Without knowing more, I would not want to rely on a coach’s assessment of admission chances, I would want some indication, such as passing a preread, from Admissions itself.