<p>Someone in my grade was telling me that they got signed onto the MIT football team as a kicker. Does that mean that he automatically gets in?</p>
<p>No. But hopefully, the coach ran him by admissions.</p>
<p>Well, MIT doesn’t “sign” athletes as they are DIII. Signing is only used in DI and DII schools and is for athletes being offered athletic scholarship money. The coach possibly showed interst, but your friend will still need to gain admission to the school.</p>
<p>At some of the more major athletic institions (BIG 10 conference, for instance), it is very easy to get in if you are recruited for a revenue sport.</p>
<p>Recruiting is never an automatic
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and MIT does not even do pre-reads…all of their sports are D3 except rowing</p>
<p>They all recruit a lot more than they admit. For instance, Amherst this year had more than 30 swimmers on an official visit weekend, for only 4 “slots”(per the swim coach). That does not mean the coach wouldn’t recommend them (a tip) but by no means is admission assured. And the MIT thing is obviously nonsense.</p>
<p>From our experience, a verbal commitment for nine months and then on ed day in mid Dec a denial.
Had to wait on taking SAT II b/c of tourney dates and repeatedly was told by the coach, once you get the score you’ll get the likely letter. Got the score, no letter. It was very hard to take as there was no communication from the coach that it was going to go this way- just ‘everything looks good’ throughout. We honestly think the College coach knew from the club coach that son was committing somewhere else back in March and then went ahead and made the offer b/c prior to that he’d been hot and cold. The college coach then said that ‘he was screwed’ because he’d be short and couldn’t replace that spot. He also said he had miscalculated the gpa as he goes to a college prep school. His AI was 200 which he then said was low. Not even four weeks later a new recruit was committed to the school- but ‘he couldn’t fill that recruiting spot’
Last two weeks of Dec spent trying to find a fit and get applications in. We know it will all work out in the end- just a cautionary tale. A handful of coaches then said this school does this every year to one or two. Wrote a letter to administration complaining about how it was all handled, got a phone call from the coach telling us, ‘that coaches talk and you have x more kids coming down the line, playing and that opportunities that might have existed might not anymore.’ Unbelievable- if my spouse and I hadn’t been listening on speaker phone we might not have believed what we were hearing. We said- so basically you’re threatening us and he said no I’m just saying</p>
<p>Thanks guys for ur info.</p>
<p>nypups- Wow, what a nightmare for you and your family. I’m sorry you had to go through that, and wish your son all the best for this spring!</p>
<p>nypups - Sorry that your son & family is going through this. It is very disturbing that the coach would call you up AFTER your letter to the administration. That is just wrong, and IMHO shows little class or sensitivity. Your son may be better off not playing for this coach. I’ll make the assumption this is Ivy/LAC because you mentioned AI. If there was any communication on his part it should have been BEFORE the letter was written with a possible explanation of why your son/daughter was denied ED and not deferred or accepted. After all, your son and coach had a 9 month verbal agreement. There was a meeting of the minds there, and in my opinioin it would have been a classy thing to do is explain what happened. Best of luck going forward…</p>