academically "overqualified" to be recruited?

monstor344
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:18:10 +0000

I bthink this is why monstor (344(?) with a 239 AI and outstanding sports stats didn;t get recruited there.

Just to clarify, my take on my situation was that the lower number of spots for Y compared to other schools led to a scramble by Yale for players as quickly as possible (they filled their slots much earlier than all of the other Ivies this year; why the coaches there felt this the best course of action is up to interpretation, but one might speculate that they didn’t want to be left in a situation where they got unlucky by waiting on potential recruits and ended up with only marginal guys in their six slots, each one holding a much larger slice of the cake, so to speak, than a school with nine/ten recruits. How did they avoid waiting on recruit? This I can ascertain - they gave he players whom they offered a week to decide - if they didn’t pull the trigger after a week, the offer was gone forever). While this got Y’s recruiting situation solved early, perhaps they missed out on even better recruits, academically and/or athletically, that would have gotten to them had they waited (I would not include myself amongst this group as, in truth, my college decision would not have changed had they posed me a slot opportunity; it’s strange to think, though, that perhaps had P’s camp been, say, two weeks after Y’s as opposed to immediately after, I might have felt the pressure to take an offer and go with it).

It’s hard to say that these schools are necessarily looking to get top AI guys all the time; they have floors to meet, not higher thresholds that, once crossed, gain them some sort of favor from the athletic department. Academic “overqualification” is definitely a bit of a fuzzy part in Ivy recruiting - what I will say is that, yes, there was subliminally, in dialogue from some coaches, the notion that I would and ought to just get into a school on my own, so that they could pull in another recruit and really construe a big, dominant class of ballplayers. However, I don’t think this contradicts more than slightly with what’s been said, as I wouldn’t have necessarily considered myself a top recruit (then again, these schools out of, say, an average of 8 slots, only tend to get ~2 of those “BOOM!” sort of players, so I would suspect that “overqualification” affects a few more players than some of the previous posters would expect).