When to stop Recruiting emails?

OnTrack2013
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:09:02 +0000

We had our son send a very factual e-mail to the 3 other schools that were viable options, stating just what you have, that he had given a verbal commitment, but not been accepted or signed yet. In our case he needed to say something because he had possible OVs that he was no longer interested in taking, so we did not want to burn any bridges. In all cases coaches said ok, good luck, and call if things don’t work out. He will likely see these other coaches at future events so he did not want to be rude. For a few others that were in the mix, he just e-mailed or told them next time they called, that he committed somewhere else and didn’t give details. If the e-mails were mass mailings and not to him personally he did nothing and all stopped coming eventually…

Also based on advice from others, once we got the actual acceptance in hand from the school he would attend, he contacted admissions for 3 schools (that were his second, third , etc. choice) that he was declining. Since there was academic money being declined, we were advised by other parents to not just leave things hanging (and decline by virtue of not sending in a deposit). By contacting admissions (D1 OOS schools) in 2 of the 3 cases he was sent a letter stating that because he declined in a timeframe to allow them to offer money to others on the wait list, should he wish to transfer for the next academic year he would not need to reapply and was given different contact info (and in one case a previously admitted student code) to save if needed, this gave us a little piece of mind in case things don’t work out at his current school.