How much will being an athletic recruit help in the admissions process?

agrems10
Tue, 03 May 2011 12:50:54 +0000

By advocate, you mean that they mention that they want you.

Lets get right down to it folks. Vassar has great athletics, but we’re best for our academics. Thats why people go to our school. ACADEMICS. If you don’t have it, you dont get in. Vassar loves kids that do sports, theater, community service, or any other sort of extra-curricular. As far as that goes, its a major win. But if you don’t have the grades to come here, there is NOTHING the coaches can do for you. Playing a sport here will not help with your admission.

However, if you want to play a sport, there are TONS of opportunities. As i mentioned above, we have fun, talented sports teams, and while many of them are dominated by recruits, I also know a lot of people on teams who were walk ons. That’s the beauty of vassar.

OP, you sound amazing, and as a fellow hurdler, I totally support you coming here, but just make sure YOU HAVE THE GRADES TO GET IN. Because you can’t rely on athletics in any way to get in here.