Walking-On to A Top College

hebrewhammer
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:19:32 +0000

For those who haven’t figured it out, his top choice is either Harvard or Yale, as those are the only two schools with acceptance rates under 10% this last year.
While I don’t know what sport you do, I can’t understand why either of those schools wouldn’t be willing to support the app of an All-American whose also top in their class. While you certainly do have the stats to be at least competitive for admissions at those schools, there are many, many, others competing who also have great grades/scores/EC’s. I would say that if the coach is unwilling to support your app, you’d be better off going with another school that can guarantee you admission and maybe even give you some money. Admissions to that top tier of schools is more or less a crapshoot (as many people are surely telling you); you can only be certain if you’ve got the coach pulling for you.