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Thank you Saki.    Admissions is with the coaches always until one applies.  Even then I know of a case or two the app was not sent to admissions because it wouldn’t pass.   

In football admissions could mean no I won’t be taking AP classes and that ends that. 
Admissions is a catch all phrase

That's what I meant by "But they would know what it would have taken to get in, and they might not have wanted to take that on."  Most class of 2022 students have one semester of useable grades (many schools went to P/F for the second semester of last year, and even for those that didn't the grades are hard to interpret) and no test scores.  Obviously one semester is enough to torpedo ones chances with C's and D's, but more likely they aren't yet deterministic.  The message from our coaches might be something along the lines of "your grades are going to need to improve in order to get in" and the athlete saying "I don't think I can do that".  You can call that an admissions casualty if you like, but given that we've had cases of students being told that and jumping through the requisite hoops, it's more a question of whether the juice is worth the squeeze for the athlete.  I wish it universally were, but alas, here we are.

BC

[BostonCard]

Thank you Saki.    Admissions is with the coaches always until one applies.  Even then I know of a case or two the app was not sent to admissions because it wouldn’t pass.   

In football admissions could mean no I won’t be taking AP classes and that ends that. 
Admissions is a catch all phrase

That's what I meant by "But they would know what it would have taken to get in, and they might not have wanted to take that on."  Most class of 2022 students have one semester of useable grades (many schools went to P/F for the second semester of last year, and even for those that didn't the grades are hard to interpret) and no test scores.  Obviously one semester is enough to torpedo ones chances with C's and D's, but more likely they aren't yet deterministic.  The message from our coaches might be something along the lines of "your grades are going to need to improve in order to get in" and the athlete saying "I don't think I can do that".  You can call that an admissions casualty if you like, but given that we've had cases of students being told that and jumping through the requisite hoops, it's more a question of whether the juice is worth the squeeze for the athlete.  I wish it universally were, but alas, here we are.

BC