arizonared ...
I am a little confused because even with the solid academics our son had in high school, I don't recall any school sending an unsolicited application for admission. But, presuming that is what is happening with your son, I am wondering about your comment:
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n all probablility, if he's not going to play ball, he won't be going....do we have to complete these applications?
I presume that you mean if he isn't going to play baseball for some of those schools (that have sent the applications), then he wouldn't be going to those schools. If that is a correct presumption, I would have to respectfully disagree with RHSfan. Why bother wasting your son's time and the time of the admissions offices of any schools he is not interested in attending
without baseball?
And as far as
not including the application fee ... I would question how a school that your son wasn't going to attend
without baseball is supposed to keep track of fees from applicants who never attend, and why they should be burdened with that responsibility. I would also wonder if the absence of an application fee might not hamper the application process at those schools. I believe that our son even sent a fee with his application to the school where he had already signed his NLI ... because I don't think the fee can be absorbed or "paid for" by scholarship money that doesn't actually exist until the student is enrolled. (If the school could "hold" the fee till enrollment, what would happen if the student/athlete became ineligible for acceptance because he didn't maintain his grades? Do you think they would send him a bill?)
My recommendation would be that your son complete applications ... including the submission of fees ... only for those schools which he would seriously consider attending
with or without baseball. If something happens that your son is fortunate enough to have a serious offer from a school where he had
not applied, and where he eventually decides to attend, then you can complete the application process with the assistance of the baseball coaches. This happens many times and we have found that some players ... in these circumstances ... are even accepted at the end of their senior years without having submitted an application earlier in their senior years. The coaches help "walk it through" for the student athlete.