Seems like a very unusual year

twoinanddone
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:40:18 +0000

You are trusting the coach to make an honest assessment as to whether she can be admitted. It’s not final but the Ivy coaches know who can get in and who can’t (as long as your daughter does her part and keeps up her grades and test scores). Most of the Ivies won’t even look at a student who doesn’t have the grades to get in. There is an article by a Yale coach who talks about grades being more important than skills when they are looking at a sophomore. I think it is on IWLCA site and there are some other articles about recruiting on there too.

At another D1 school, she’ll get a NLI to sign but that won’t happen until Nov of senior year either. At an Ivy, she’ll hope for that LL.

It really does work out. Those committing to Cornell or Yale as juniors have the same confidence (and same fears) as those committing to Maryland that the coach is going to support them through admissions and onto the team. It doesn’t help the coach to recruit a player who can’t be admitted.