NYU Swimming Recruit: Will it Help Chances?

carolyn1954
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:42:16 +0000

Being on the recruit list does not mean that the coach is going to support your application. At most schools a coach can only support a limited number of applicaitons each year and only those at the top of the recruit list get supported. You should ask the coach if s/he know yet whether s/he is going to support your application. I think NYU is Division III. Division III schools compete for athletes with Division 1-AA (the Ivies, etc.) and Division II (which give scholarships), so I don’t think Division III coach get serious about recuiting until after the Division 1-AA and Division II school have made their decisions, unless an athletes makes it clear that he/she really wants to go to a particular school and isn’t looking at any other schools. Even then the coach may want to wait to see what other prospects rated above you decide to do. If you are getting phone calls and handwritten notes and letters from the coach, you are probably pretty high on the recruit list. If you are getting generic emails and letters, you probably aren’t on the A list, but you still shouldn’t give up hope and you should probably send the coach any additional information that you can about yourself that will make you stand out from others on the recruit list. Having a coach support your application helps a lot. Good luck.