Question about recruiting/college application process

After the stated application deadline, your application would be a "late file". Which means your application won't get looked over until everybody else's is processed. Depending on the college and the circumstances of the athlete, the admissions people will look at the application and process it after all the other ones. I would never assume any of this, however. It is always best to check with admissions unless your recruiting coach gives you other specific information.

ok, I am wondering because I am getting looks from many D3 schools, but want to try and gain more velocity during the winter and hopfully get a scholarship to a D2 school. so is it possible for a school to do that after the original application deadline?

there are application deadlines rules for everyone except athletes.

if you are recruited and the coach says he wants you, your application gets special treatment.

you still have to be accepted as a student, but the application deadline doesnt really exist for recruited athletes.

Baseballtoday

Once again wrong info---at many high academic schools this does not happen

My son's friend was recruited by a Cal state school 1 week before school started. The coach walked his application through and he was admitted immediately.

With the common application being accepted by so many schools why wouldn't you apply to schools you are interested in and let the baseball "chips" fall where they may? Each school is different and I don't know how many D3 schools would recruit late in the year. Best to check with each school.

The poster also mentioned that he was hoping for scholarship money. Not sure that much scholarship money is left after the fall. Be sure to have other financial options explored. A late application may also mean getting your financial aid packet in a bit late, too.

You can see articles from this past May and June where high school players signed with D1 programs for this current fall semester (2008).

Schools may show baseball interest after or during your senior season, and those choices will still be available even if you haven't already applied.

I know from experiences with high school players from other sports, that if the coach wants you, they can get you in after the admissions deadline.

My suggestion is to apply to the schools you are interested in if you weren't going to play baseball, plus any baseball schools that have shown real interest in following you at this point. The application is a way of telling the baseball coaches who already know you that you are seriously interested in their school. I wouldn't apply to every school out there.

Applications, even if you use the Common App, are expensive and require fee payments, and often school specific supplemental applications. It does you no harm to apply to many schools, although it's expensive and time consuming (application fees, high school transcript fees, fees for sending test scores, etc.)

To go one step further about the application fees, if you have an idea this early in the stage of maybe 3-4 schools/programs you really like, sometimes the Coach can get the fee waived for you. All you have to do is ask. Sometimes there is a "timeframe" some schools have that if you apply between certain dates, the application is waived. just check out the websites to learn more.

It certainly serves no purpose to go out and start applying to every single school though.