For a D1 Power 4 Conference recruit who gets admission support but no scholarship (so no NLI), are likely letters provided or does the athlete need to trust the coach? I know Ivy League and some D3s give likely letters, but what happens at other D1 conference schools when an athlete commits without money.
Others can chime in but I believe there is no official paperwork. Having said that, preferred walk-ons (recruits not getting athletic money) are very common and not something to worry about IMO.
Have you gone through an academic pre-read to make sure everything is in order? What about a financial pre-read?
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I don’t believe any of the top college conferences offer likely letters. The student athlete needs to trust the coach. Many D1 athletes don’t get any athletic money, or very little.
The coach will send athletic department specific paperwork that will make it clear that the incoming athlete is part of the team.
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I think Stanford and Duke give LL to athletes. Not sure if they do them for non-scholarship athletes.
Yes, she went through a preread and passed and we are not looking for financial aid.
As far as I know, academic pre-reads are typically done at the higher-academic schools. Academic pre-reads might also be done at schools that give out merit money so that the athlete can get a pretty good idea about if they’d qualify for an academic scholarship. They may or may not include likely letters.
Yes, this is at a top 30 school and the coach put her through a preread. She is going on an official visit there as well as some others. Two others are Ivys who can offer likely letters. But she prefers the non-Ivy. I was just concerned about how confident we can be if she gets and offer and commits there.
I’d ask the coach directly about how the process works at their school/program.
But yes, in most cases a certain amount of trust is needed that the coach will do what they say if they’re offering support.
Just to be clear, this is the case at Ivies also as the likely letter comes after support has been provided, and usually after a recruit has declined offers of support at other schools to accept it at their first choice school.
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Yes, what @politeperson said. The Ivy Likely Letter comes after the athlete has submitted their complete ED/REA application. So there is some amount of trust needed there as well.
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Trust and self awareness.
I know of instances where LL was denied due to low grades or test scores. Presumably this was because commitment happened early in Junior year and the athlete’s class room performance was not maintained.
The athletes I know of were accepted in RD after meeting whatever stipulation from admissions.
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Good point. Thank you.
I’m curious if this will now turn into a full scholarship as it is expected that track and field will have 45 spots and can give that many full rides. Congrats!
Sadly, its much more likely that any given track program will be cut than being given 45 full boats.
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Just because they can doesn’t mean they will. It is unlikely that their budgets will grow to start handing out the maximum number of full rides.
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Do you have a link that details this?
It’s been published.
i believe T&F team like Princeton carries over 70 athletes. How big is Stanford’s team?
I agree that the net result will be programs being cut.
Here are all the proposed new roster limits. (although I dislike NCSA a great deal, this is a good write-up of these changes.)
It remains to be seen at what level any school will fully fund and/or reach roster maximums in each of the various sports. I agree with others that we are going to see many sports take cuts, whether in roster size and/or scholarship $.
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It appears all sports will become equivalency sports. That’s interesting. A school doesn’t need to provide full rides.
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“Not really” since they can award full rides to the entire team if they choose to. It’s ironic that the suit was brought on by a former swimmer. Many swim programs will not survive this.
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