I was recruited and offered by Amherst even though my SAT was 1290 although I did run 9:08 for 3200m
What does "offered" mean in this context? Guaranteed admission? Aid?
i would assume he's saying he got the fat envelope offering admission. he's probably putting it like he did because he's under the averages.
our D3 soccer coach at my LAC told me if i had any admissions trouble he had some say on marginal cases, but i doubt he needed it on me, and i heard back rapidly, so i don't know personally how this plays out.
couple things, i think the special effort is usually a limited amount of slots AFTER they have admitted a bunch of people as ED or on merit. if you are barely under their unweighted GPA you might make it on your own steam, as you might still be in the middle 50%. or if you need any coach help, it won't be a long discussion.
and bear in mind due to cost and other factors there is a difference between acceptance and yield. amherst if i read right is like 7% acceptance but 41% yield. which means 59% accepted go someplace else. so they are accepting slightly more than twice the entering class size assuming some will have other ideas.
I was guaranteed admission but declined because I wanted to run d1. I've since signed to a top d1 school with great academics, basically at the level of Amherst. My advice is to focus completely on running because the times will get you wherever you want. Personally I was running about 50 miles a week with weight training 3 times a week. Go to practice everyday, sleep good, and execute to the best of your ability on race day.
I was guaranteed admission but declined because I wanted to run d1. I've since signed to a top d1 school with great academics, basically at the level of Amherst. My advice is to focus completely on running because the times will get you wherever you want. Personally I was running about 50 miles a week with weight training 3 times a week. Go to practice everyday, sleep good, and execute to the best of your ability on race day.
So given this is D3, is this legal? Or is it just they can't offer you any financial aid for purely athletic reasons?
I'm naive here, I really don't know. Is this how a North Central does it? Guarantee admission to someone who could go D1, and give them some made up academic scholarship?
I guess all of this surprises me. Not to knock anyone, but this is D3 we're talking about.
I had exactly one coach call me when I was a senior in high school (during application review) to inquire about my times, Pete Farwell of Williams. So, clearly they were noting athletics mentioned in the applications and referring those applicants to the coaches. However, my junior year times did not help me a bit (I could hear his voice fall when I said that I had run 5:03/10:39 (yikes!) as a junior) and I was waitlisted and only accepted in June. A year later a marginal student with similar times to the OP got in with SATs that were over 200 pts lower. I don't think he'll have difficulty getting in.