got a 4.0UW with 1 Ap and 1 DE for my senior year report card which was submitted in my pre read
good amount of class rigor
6 APs 2 Dual Enrollments 2 Honors
Also had a rough start my 9th grade and got 5 Cs but I had a great upwards trend especially during 11th and 12th grade (around the same time i started taking harder classes)
ECs:
good extracurriculars owned a club and essay is good but they won’t see this in a pre read
Class rank:
Class rank is under the 50% mark as I go to a school that is ranked 280 in the nation and 3rd in state and 9th grade grades really brought it down.
submitted pre read and now just waiting for results. Does anyone who has done the same process able to chance me or give me a guess of what i most likely will get?
I am not familiar with Grinnell’s athletic recruiting, but generally coaches don’t want to waste everyone’s time with a candidate that won’t pass a preread. So the coach must have thought you have a shot!
Right now all I heard is as of recently is that he told me submitted the pre read for me and that we should hear back soon this was about a week ago from today which makes since as they just finished ED1 deadlines so they are probably busy and I usually don’t know how long a pre read should take
She has a 3.7 UW, 4.6 W with 10 APs and very strong ECs outside of her sport…not submitting test scores. One school had her submit a writing example in the preread. 3 schools came back saying highly likely to admit with a merit scholarship. Interestingly the one that was recruiting her the hardest came back and said they wanted to see her first quarter grades to make sure she didn’t have too many Bs. I’m not really comfortable sharing the schools until she’s been accepted and commits…but it’s for a different sport and not Grinnell.
I cannot predict results for Grinnell. We live way to the east of Grinnell and we didn’t consider it (although perhaps we should have, it is a very good college).
However, this uptrend is likely to help you a lot. It will help with college admissions. It will also help you to be prepared to do well once you get to college. Congratulations! In the end the effort will have been very much worth it. Best wishes.
A pre read after you’ve already applied ED really isn’t a pre read. Most pre reads take place in summer and fall before the ED application is due. Grinnell has already started to evaluate ED applications as decisions will be released in three weeks or so.
When did you submit the preread? What sort of indication did the coach give you?
While your GPA is low for Grinnell and being test optional probably doesn’t help, your chances probably come down to how much the coach needs you on his roster and if he has any more supported slots to give. Given the lateness of your preread, I’m guessing you were not a priority recruit. But maybe I’m misinterpreting the situation and this is just how this school and coach does it. At any rate, you’ll know soon.
You could, but at this point you’ll have a definitive answer soon enough. The coach must have submitted thinking that there is at least a chance with support.
My guess is that you’ll be fine, but that the coach, who probably extended the offer recently, doesn’t want to “waste” your ED if it’s not a go from admissions. That’s a decent move on their part and an indication that there is some risk.
AOs tend to be understanding when there’s been an upward trajectory. They are getting the applicant at the end of that trajectory, not the beginning, and there are lots of reasons why some students falter at the beginning of high school. Recovery is more important than the rocky start.
For your part, you should take whatever you learned from that and use it to ensure you are successful in college. (Time management will be key as will keeping up with your work without daily assignments to submit.)
My daughter went through half a dozen pre reads over the summer at D3 schools for another sport. Admissions took anywhere from a day to a week. Results were communicated from admissions to the coaching staff and coach contacted my daughter with the outcome.
While she passed all the pre reads, not all coaches came back to her with an offer. A couple invited her for an official overnight visit in the fall, one stalled (we assumed she was not a priority recruit and Coach was waiting for a higher priority athlete to turn the spot down before making her an offer).
All offers received were contingent on applying ED1 and maintaining academic and athletic performance.
I kind of don’t understand the benefit or necessity of a preread at this point. Unless the coach has more than one potential recruit who has also already applied ED, and the coach just wants to know which is liklier to get in before deciding where to put their finger on the scale, it doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t the coach just support the athlete and see what happens? It’s so late in the process it’s unlikely the coach could use their support with a different athlete.