Football recruiting

GordonTheGekko
Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:19:18 +0000

Hi all,

My younger sibling is applying, but because Harvard (and other Ivy’s) does not send out as many “scouts” to big HS football games, contacting recruiters directly seems to be easier said than done. He hired a recruiting liaison (I don’t know the correct name, but some guy who works to send the ‘highlight’ video and what not) and listed Harvard as one school.

He’s already recruited to a Big 10 school in state, so I’m assuming Harvard will probably take him?

First time he took the ACT he scored a 27 or 28 (don’t remember). I heard through the grapevine that one athlete scored a 27. Yes, he will be kicking butt on studying the big red book (and blue collegeboard book…) until he scores a 30+. Transcript good, essays seem to be well (based off of mine and other friends’ that I read who were also accepted this year)… I guess we’ll see what happens. Logically a sibling and parent legacy would be a plus, but hopefully Harvard won’t view this as a lets-get-everyone-in-our-family-into-Harvard-now scheme. I recently read about a user in this forum (maybe you’re reading this ;)) who’s younger child was accepted to every school except Harvard, where their older sibling was. Hm.

I have yet to find a recruited football player at H! I know you’re out there! :p