Senior year Spring interest

My son applied to schools he wanted to go to, that included the ones he had contact with, even though he did not have an NLI at any of them. I believe in the UC system he checked the schools that he was interested in and they accepted the common application.

He had a couple of programs come out and see him during the HS season, most were during trips they were making in the area and/or the recruiting coach could get away. One head coach came in between games in SoCal. One specifically said that they were not concerned about deadlines and could get him in all the way up to August.

He was accepted and received a nice academic package at his current school after their normal cutoff date, but before May 1st. I do know that there are freshmen at his school that were accepted in the July time frame.

No school will step out of the woodwork in the spring if they don't have the abiltiy to get him into the school at that point. At my son's former school the coach got a kid enrolled two weeks before school started. Not all schools are the same.

Some coaches may suggest that your son apply to their school before the enrollment deadlines for a number of reasons. i.e. the coach doesn't want to use up a favor if he doesn't have to with admissions, the coach not really sure about whether he's going to offer, the coach will be trying to talk your son into walking on......

Thanks BOF and CollegePNM. That is what I expected as I hate the idea of spending 50-100 in fees on the schools that are following him. He has a couple of options but nothing he is excited about and I think he will hold off for now.

As the others have indicated, if the coaches can cut through the red tape at the school. HOWEVER, it is important that YOU take care of all of the CLEARINGHOUSE stuff ASAP.

Something I was pleasantly surprised with during the application process was the number of schools who waive their application fees in exchange for attendance at one of their Open Houses, or Admissions Tours. Be sure to ask about those even if all you did was go to a baseball clinic and had the coach or a player show you around the campus. Son has applied, via the Common App, to at least 7 great schools (multiple divisions) so far for Early Action, and only had to pay an application fee to one!

He selected the schools based on the criteria of education/social/baseball in that order but all schools must have had all three facets as positive. Final decisions will weigh on playing opportunity and financial aid, knowing that the school selection was already narrowed based on a good education in a good social environment.

Not relying on coaches to get him in, rather want to take that challenge off the coach's plate entirely. If someone can't get in on their own academic merits, do they really belong there just because they are good at baseball? Unless you have an NLI from a D1 you need to consider that Baseball ends; learning and building your future doesn't.