HS class of 2020. Recruiting experience

recruitparent
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:26:43 +0000

Agreeing with at @politeperson that an Ivy LL is for all intent and purposes as solid as an offer of admission. It has been a few years since I have seen an Ivy LL, and did not have CC to draw on then, but I was surprised in that I do not believe it contained the words “likely”. I have heard that the wording in an Ivy LL can vary by school.
As most know, the Ivy coaches only get so many LLs, which vary by sport, so they only award those to the top recruits on their list that admissions will admit and I believe only after the athlete/student has applied.
One possible area of distinction from an Ivy LL and other LL semantics that others are talking about is that Ivy’s are D1, lower end D1 for some sports but still D1s, that can not give Athletic Scholarships like other D1s. So the LL is very important recruiting tool for the coaches; similar in some aspects to a coach awarding athletic scholarships at a D1.