ED1 and ED2 for Recruits

Midwestmomofboys
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:51:49 +0000

On the Haverford board, there is an older thread about “athletes beware” or something like that, where a parent recounted their experience with Men’s lax recruiting where lax player did not get in ED. The family felt that if they had understood that it really could go either way, they might have chosen a different school rather than take the risk with Haverford, and blamed the school and the coach for not being clear. Others in that thread recounted they understood ED was not a “sure thing” at Haverford, even with coach support and a strong application, and that it really could go either way. There was a lot of emotion – understandable – because a recruit’s decision to go ED1 means they are walking away from other opportunities that likely will not be there in December if the recruit is deferred ED1.

It is important to try to decipher “coach speak,” and to ask specific questions – “where am I on your recruiting list? How many recruits that you have given this level of support with my stats have been rejected in the past 5 years?” There is a lot of learning along the way for athlete and the family, and my kid matured as he learned to interact with coaches in person and on the phone, to ask follow up questions, and to make the difficult call to coaches he had developed a relationship with to say he was not choosing their school. It all worked out wonderfully in the end, but there are likely to be some bumps on the way.