Pomona College Athletic Recruiting

Toosaucy
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:35:06 +0000

I am being recruited by a Pomona College athletic team. The coach has submitted my stats for a pre-read. I don’t have the results of the pre-read yet, but I have a couple of questions about the pre-read process at Pomona.

1. Does the entire admissions committee review the athlete’s stats before making a decision as they would during the regular admissions season? Or, is there an athletic rep for each team that reviews the athlete’s stats / is there one athletic rep in admissions that does pre-reads?

2. Does the coach submit something with the athlete’s stats? (I read an article about how many elite LAC’s sports teams don’t accurately mirror the student body in terms of diversity. Supposedly, they are trying to fix this. However, in order for this to be fixed, wouldn’t admissions have to know someone’s ethnicity prior to the pre-read in order to make a decision? This leads me to believe that either the coach would have to inform admissions of the athlete’s ethnicity for the pre-read, or the coach submits some sort of form/extra info about the athlete that would provide this kind of information??-I could be totally off base assuming this, but I just don’t understand how they would know an athlete’s ethnicity before they fill out an actual application? If anyone has any hypotheses/insight on this, please shed some light. )

3. During the pre-read, do they take into account athletic ability? For example, if a student would be a very impactful athlete and has the same “mediocre” stats as a student that is a good athlete, but wouldn’t be as impactful, would they be more inclined to give a positive pre-read result to the impactful athlete? Does the coach make admissions aware of the athlete’s impact prior to the pre-read?

1. As far as results of the pre-read, is it always black and white- does admissions always say yes or no? Is it possible that they tell the coach something like "this student is only likely to be admitted if you use a slot for the athlete?"

I know that the pre-read is unofficial in all capacities, and a positive result does not at all guarantee admission. I’m just looking to gain more insight on the pre-read process. Thank you all in advance for your input!