Does anyone know if you have to first be accepted into a school before the NLI can be offered to you or can the baseball coach offer the NLI without the admissions office officially notifying the recruit yet that he is accepted into the school or does the coach get told unofficially by admissions that the recruit will be accepted into the school and it is ok to offer the NLI?
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You can receive an NLI before being accepted.
Each school is different regarding the # of students a coach is allowed to "walk in" to the school. Some have a bunch...some have none. Regarding the communication between coach and admissions office - that varies school to school. That would be a question you could ask the coach.
In the cases I am familiar with...not saying it is a universal requirement.... application has to be on file with Admissions.
Our experience was that the HC required all transcripts & test scores prior to Jr getting his NLI. Shortly thereafter, he received his acceptance to the school.
Not sure if HC walked it through.
Yes.In fact, NCAA requires transcripts and test scores to be submitted prior to any official visit
If you read the NLI, the terms the school commits to are all contingent upon your being admitted and thereafter remaining in good academic standing.
The time to ask whether you meet the admissions criteria (which, as noted, will vary from school to school according to both the typical admissions standards and the extent to which that particular school indulges recruited athletes) is during the recruiting process. Because if you were to sign an NLI and then not ever get through admissions, you would have effectively taken yourself off the market and then ended up with nothing.
Most coaching staffs know this and review all such things with you. I suppose a few might be clueless, and a few might recruit a guy knowing that getting him in was iffy (sometimes telling him that up front). But in my experience this is all reviewed in advance and fairly accurately predicted during the recruiting process.
I know a kid who signed an NLI with a ranked team who wasn't accepted until he cleared the NCAA minimum for the SAT on his last try.
Yes I know of several kids expecting NLI's next week...yet they still have to raise their SAT's scores in order to pass admissions.
You can certainly ask the coach to get a 'read' or 'decision' from admissions before you sing the NLI if thats important to you.
We did and we got the answer.
This summer after Junior finished his JUCO, was playing summer ball in the NECBL an I was with him when he signed his NLI after a game. At this point he has submitted nothing to the new school. He filled on line app prior to start of school, arrived on day one with transcripts in hand.
Coach took care of everything, no bumps in the road. Had dorm set up, rooming with another JUCO transfer, schedule was done on check in day.
