HS class of 2020. Recruiting experience

jhchicago
Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:09:13 +0000

Based on what we read and experienced, it seems MOST high academic schools follow the following process to various degree:

1. Any Kids can fill the recruiting profile. Easily thousand for each sport at each school

2. From #1, coaches narrow down to a couple of hundreds to communicate and follow and observe

3. From 2, coaches further narrow down to a list of say a few dozens ( somewhat proportional to the specific sport roster size) and ask for re-read.

4. From pre read results, coaches will further narrow down to a smaller list to make offers to apply (early decision, ED preferred) to a few dozen of students in staggering phases. Positive pretend does not automatically ensure offers. That’s when kids on this list is called Recruited Athletes. Stanford’s Pink Envelope kicks in in this step to all Recruited Athletes. For other schools, maybe just an email from coach inviting to apply. In this dozen kids, some will be supported with slots, if school has it(MIT and CIT do not have this) and the rest will get soft tip support. Good to find out where you are, but not all coaches will communicate clearly and directly for their consideration.

5. Kids with slot support ( 2-6varying by school, by sports) will get those significant assurance (LL, early writes, NLI) before the decision date. The rest with soft support will have to wait until decision date to find out whether they are the lucky 3-5 out of say 20 in the soft support category.

6. In some school there might be tryout once school starts and might pick up one or two here and there. But these are not called recruited athletes.

Just my best guesstimate.