WARNING to prospective athletes

ShesOnHerWay
Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:42:10 +0000

Your warning sounds like sour grapes which is understandable given your interpretation of your status with Amherst.

Having been involved in CC (as I know you have), you should have known a number of things:
1- don’t count on acceptance until the letter is in hand
2- have viable, acceptable safety colleges in your arsenal (love your safety)
3- RD student-athletes are generally considered right along with RD non-student-athletes
4- MIT does not consider recruited athletes any differently than non-athletes

It is interesting to me that you counted on MIT to consider you differently because of your recruited status. It probably didn’t have much influence on your acceptance as you think it did. You got into MIT on your own - congratulations that is quite an accomplishment.

Yes, I agree with you that others should apply to more schools and not count on reach schools as definite acceptances regardless of what you think they said. I’m sure no one at Amherst told you it was a sure thing.

Revel in your MIT acceptance. It is where you belong…You want them and they want you. Congratulations again.