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Here's the scenario..... After years of preparation with the ultimate goal of playing baseball at your "dream school". You finally reach your goal, and have been accepted in a program within the Big 10,SEC, SCC, Ivy, WAC, MW, PAC 10 etc. June 9th rolls around and you find yourself being selected in the draft.

If you opt to pursue milb. Is your enrollment soley dependedent on playing baseball and would be rescinded at dream school, if you did not play? Do you have x amount of time to start your education before your enrollment is void?
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If one is drafted and accepts a professional contract the scholarship is null and void, the admission to the school is not.
You must enroll and attend classes by first semester of your acceptance or you are considered a no show.
I am not sure how long an admission is held for future, most likely one would have to reapply again, it's not like he has attended classes and worked towards his degree, which would become a withdrawal and I do beleive their is a time frame for that possibility before one has to reapply.
Hope this helps.
Also understand the it is very difficult to start your education while playing professional ball, unless the school is on the 1/4 semester, most schools begin in august and pro ball does not end until late august or early september if the team makes playoffs.
Some of it, I suppose, would depend on the extent to which the coach curried favor for admission. In my sons case, no way does he get into the school he's at without baseball.

If the coach were instrumental in the admissions process, then I highly doubt junior qualifies for admission without baseball.
Don't know about the scholarship schools, but the Ivy's cannot rescind your admission. Once you are admitted you do not have to play. I've read of this happening but I would venture to say that it is rare. This also applies to other colleges where admissions are highly competitive such as NESCAC and other similar colleges. Coaches have to be careful who they recruit and make sure they plan to show up on the field. At son's school you can defer enrollment for a year.

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