What happens when you don't do the college sport you were recruited for?

Applying to College
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<p>COMPLETELY hypothetical. Just always wondered…
Let’s just say Johnny is good at crew. Good enough to be recruited at Yale (he wouldn’t have the stats to get in to Yale otherwise). After he is accepted and matriculates in the fall, Johnny’s parents pressure him to not join crew so he can concentrate on his school work. He agrees.
Will he be reprimanded? How so?</p>

2

<p>He’ll certainly lose all the scholarship money he got. Other than that, not sure.</p>

3

<p>Outside of any direct scholarships for a sport… no. People leave programs for various reasons good or bad.</p>

4

<p>Yale doesn’t give athletic scholarships. So he won’t “lose all the scholarship money he got.” Probably nothing will happen.</p>

5

<p>You would be a lying self-centered cheat to allow yourself to be recruited to row at Yale and then not row. It would be a terrible thing to do to the team, the coach and to the next kid on the list who didn’t get to go to Yale because you took his spot. </p>

<p>But no, Yale wouldn’t do anything to you.</p>

6

<p>IT happens all the time, but it is really crummy to use your sport for admissions help if you don’t intend to be on the team. After you try it out, if the time commitment is too great or you want to focus on academics, it’s a different story.</p>

7

<p>if its not for a good reason (injury, or something serious like that) then there will be a lot of people that are dissapointed and not happy with you. I don’t think they’ll do much though.</p>

8

<p>The college can’t really do much but it’s sort of unethicial for someone to use sports to help them get into a good college when they have no real desire to continue it.</p>

9

<p>Usually the recruits enjoy their sports, and continue on in college.</p>