Chico Escuela posted:Not to hijack the thread, but how much stock should a player put in a HA D3 coach’s invite to come for an overnight visit? My son’s travel coach tells the boy he can stop planning other visits bc his 1st choice school has issued such an invite. That makes me uncomfortable, since son could end up with no offer just a few weeks before ED deadline. I’d like son to keep emailing other coaches and to plan on overnights at another couple of schools. Adding to this thread bc son and I keep disagreeing about whether he ought to keep reaching out to schools to gauge interest in much the way the OP wants her son to do.
A lot. I've mentioned this on a few other threads but they aren't inviting your kid up to campus to make a new friend and get his thoughts on the new arts building. It is a huge waste of time for everybody involved if the trip does not result in an offer. They wasted your son's time, your time, your job's time, their own time, and their host player's time. There really isn't a good reason to bring a kid out to campus and not offer him. Unless your son is a borderline candidate for admissions and they need to run some numbers in regards to GPA and scores there really isn't much to talk about.
Went on a visit with 2019. It was a school well within his baseball ability and the trip was taken more as a courtesy to his travel coach than it had to do with actual interest in the school. Spent all day on campus and end up in coach's office where he tells us how he thinks he's a great fit and can see him being their sat starter as a freshman. And then silence. No offer. He was pissed he missed a school field trip for that. It was the last conversation he had with that coach. Now, he had a bunch of other offers. Until your kid has an offer do not drop any school he would even slightly consider going to. All it takes it one visit where he clicks with the kids and likes the campus. Works the other way is well, all it takes is one bad visit to dream school and the dream dies quickly.