Thanks for the warm welcome!
MIT is one college that, even with a good chance, there's not really a good chance...
In any case, this waiting game is fun one minute, then it gets old real quick!
As mentioned above, the coaches in previous years had a good idea on the top 5 and then no idea after that. That didn't happen with the 2023 class. I would want to know what the commitment from admissions is for the 2024 class. Was the 2023 class an anomaly or will that be how it looks going forward? My guess is they won't be able to give you a straight answer on that one and that would concern me. The previous RC had a great relationship with admissions. No idea how the relationships are with the new RC.
If the player is talented he will be able to tell other coaches recruiting him that they are his number 2 and most of them will understand. However, the number of coaches with influence for RD admissions is very small. Some will have influence on ED2.
"the number of coaches with influence for RD admissions is very small. Some will have influence on ED2."
Legitimately asking. Why is this? Shouldn't most have pull in ED2 still?
I believe some schools have an athletics admissions committee that meets only for ED. A coach might still be able to talk to admissions in the later stages, but it would be a different process. Also, if the school has already admitted 5 or 6 baseball players in ED, why would they want to admit more later? They also need musicians, debaters, computer programmers, etc.
"They also need musicians, debaters, computer programmers, etc."
What? There's a world outside baseball? Who says?
Slightly off topic, but MIT related. First job out of school my boss had gone to MIT and played baseball there. He would tell us stories about going out on weekends, drinking so much he forgot where he left his car (VW Beatle). No idea how that even worked.
Total idiot savant. Literally could not configure his email client, but could (and did at one point) write a complete email server and programming language. People like that always amaze me.
That's a great story! When my son was choosing between MIT and Chicago, I kinda tried to steer him towards MIT since he was going to major in CS, but he didn't want to go to a school that was essentially comprised of STEM hardos. Turns out at Chicago, he's surrounded by Econ hardos LOL.
We have a family friend who is an older MIT grad and later served on an alumni committee to study how they could improve alumni donations. This was a couple of decades ago when MIT wasn't in the mix athletically. They were basically having tryouts among admitted students each year. The committee recommended that the school do more to admit young people who had the potential to be entrepreneurs, leaders and CEOs instead of lab rats and coders....like athletes! So they began allowing the coaches to find recruits with great grades and test scores and who could handle the GIRs (General Institute Requirements: Multi-variable Calc, Physics, Bio, and Chemistry). There is still no guarantee, but they now consider athletes as a part of a well-rounded class. MIT has 33 varsity sports which is the largest Division III program in the country. And still, when I tell someone my son played baseball at MIT, most of them ask, "They have sports at MIT?" Not only do they have sports, the women have won the NEWMAC President's Cup 9 out of the 10 years they have been part of the conference.
And, @anotherparent, you would be very surprised at how many of my son's teammates are excellent musicians who studied Course 6 (computer science), and can debate with you on any variety of subjects, ! Those kids constantly amazed me with all they fit into a day!