Waiting on ED........

Stay strong!  It's just a few more days and then you can breathe and move on to the next part of the journey.

As my Grandmother always said, "Sh*t like this builds character"  as well as "There is a lid for every pot" (in baseball and relationships). She never played college baseball, but she was a very wise woman! 

Make sure to keep us posted!

Did your son hear back from Lehigh yet?  Based on the recruiting cycle for him I have to guess you have other apps in as well......  I just have to gut out a week or two....

Forgot D1 was letter of intent!  That makes it easier for you D1 parents.....

Hang in there Gunner. A bunch of us have been there....to diffuse thoughts think of plan B's. That's not being negative, just practical.  My son didn't want to hear that, he was confident.  But I had to, so that we were prepared to move on quickly.  Having said that: I'm sure all will work out.

We were the same as you -- no other apps, and no backup other than Juco.   

The coach did do one thing that helped us feel secure - he sent an invite for the kid to buy the same swag and practice jerseys that the team gets.

Hang in there. Anecdotally at least my impression is that it works out the vast majority of the time.

JCG posted:

We were the same as you -- no other apps, and no backup other than Juco.   

The coach did do one thing that helped us feel secure - he sent an invite for the kid to buy the same swag and practice jerseys that the team gets.

Hang in there. Anecdotally at least my impression is that it works out the vast majority of the time.

JC, that same thing happened to son.  It did reduce anxiety 

Gunner Mack Jr. posted:

Forgot D1 was letter of intent!  That makes it easier for you D1 parents.....

Also waiting on ED. NLI is signed, but admissions letter will put merit aid in writing. 

Same here.  The extremely low acceptance rate at the school mine is applying ED makes it especially nerve-racking, even with coach support.  Feels more like a kamikaze mission.  But it is THE school of interest for him and he's going at it with eyes wide open (if that is even possible for a male teenager).

Best of luck to everyone waiting on their ED application.   Been there and done that, so glad when it was over.

This is how I've handled it. Twice.

Just remember: the chair has to be dayglo green and it has to be plastic.

smokeminside posted:

This is how I've handled it. Twice.

Just remember: the chair has to be dayglo green and it has to be plastic.

Haha - Smoke in rare form..😎

Smoke's courage has inspired me to share.  Couldn't get the neon green chair past security, though.

My son is also waiting for his official ED acceptance but he received a likely letter from his HA D3 school about a month ago so that is reassuring. Do your son’s schools issue likely letters to recruits? If not, was an official preread done? If preread was positive I would think that is strong indication of likelihood even if the school doesn’t offer likely letter.

Zoom 2020 posted:

My son is also waiting for his official ED acceptance but he received a likely letter from his HA D3 school about a month ago so that is reassuring. Do your son’s schools issue likely letters to recruits? If not, was an official preread done? If preread was positive I would think that is strong indication of likelihood even if the school doesn’t offer likely letter.

They do not do likely letters but the pre-read was done and he was told directly that the coach would use a chit with admissions and that he need only to apply to this one school.  I am highly confident he will get accepted based on the meeting with the HC its just natural anxiety kicking in....his scores are in range too.   We might not hear until 12/20 I am told too-  late ED notification date.

No likely letters are issued by my son's school. Yes, we had pre-reads there and elsewhere. I didn't know there was such a thing as those being "official".  

Like so many things, it comes down what you ask the coach. I said, "Do players ever fail to get admitted after they have been told they will get in?"

We liked the answer, so that was that.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know which HA D3’s issue likely letters to athletic recruits? I know Ivy D1’s issue likely letters but not sure how many D3’s do this. From our experience, we know that MIT and Caltech do not issue likely letters (they don’t even do formal prereads), but Hopkins does. Do any NESCAC schools or Pomona or CMS issue likely letters? It would be interesting to see how different HA D3’s go about their recruiting. I don’t understand why schools wouldn’t want to give this option to their recruits to help lock up their class, even MIT and Caltech.

The D3 school my son is applying to did send him a likely letter--a couple of weeks after the ED deadline had passed and he had submitted his application.  So I don't feel much anxiety, but I do wonder if something weird was happening behind the scenes and if maybe I should have been (or should be) more worried than I was/am.  This is a weird process.

No likely letters with sons NESCAC school.  Pre-read with admissions was done and son was told he's on solid footing academically with GPA/ACT being in middle 50% of the previous years accepted students.  HC told son he was his top pick (he could have been one of three for all we know) to support through admissions. HC said he was highly confident and that was good enough for us.  HC also said : he cannot provide any  guarantees though because admissions has the full picture of every candidate, he doesn't.

I haven't heard of any other NESCAC school providing some form of a likely letter.

Anxiety is normal - I sweated quite a bit this same time two years ago.  Son never did.

Dirtbag30 posted:

Smoke's courage has inspired me to share.  Couldn't get the neon green chair past security, though.

Haha... something tells me this will be the greatest three seconds of this dude's life... and that's not all that bad 

Well, the thread topic IS "waiting on ED".  He now needs to wait no longer.