Truth About Recruiting at Elite Schools?

Ohiodad51
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:14:06 +0000

Agree with most of the above. When you get to the point of being seriously recruited, the coaches will tell you specific information about academic thresholds at all schools.

And I am positive you are correct that Stanford will in very general terms bend more than the Ivys. But you need to understand that for most sports, the athletic hurdle will be higher at Stanford as well, and a kid who may be a solid player at Stanford all of a sudden becomes a potential All Ivy player at Yale. So Yale may bend a little more because they are getting a relative athletic outlier, whereas Stanford may not because they have six kids rostered all ready at your level, and they are saving their “juice” for one or two potential All Pac 12 or All American level players. Basically, what one school does or doesn;t do in general is pretty useless information to you, because it is all going to depend on how desirable you are as an individual recruit.

You really need to think about this like a sliding scale. There are very bright line thresholds academically and athletically. But once you clear those thresholds, the more desirable you are athletically the more wiggle room on academics. And visa versa, of course.