[Mick]

[quote author=Papa John link=topic=9617.msg119730#msg119730 date=1433175101]
According to Rivals, Beau Bisharat has an offer from Yale. Just a guess, but I'm thinking that Yale is as selective academically for football offers as Stanford. But someone else on the CARDBoard must know better than I.

Since the Ivies (technically anyway) don't give athletic scholarships, I'm not sure just what the meaning of an "offer"is. Perhaps "we'd like you to come play football for us, so if you apply and are accepted, we'll consider you for need based financial help".
Supposedly the Ivies are a little looser on the requirements for need based financial help for athletes than non-athletes, but again that's anecdotal.
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Well, having had two sons go through the Ivy recruiting process, let me assure you that an "offer," complete with financial aid assurances is a standard process.  Every athletic team has a number of slots for which they must attract recruits.  The coaches in each sport lead the recruiting.  They vet the student, academics and all, and employ an administrator to liaise with admissions.  The outcome is what is known as a "likely letter."  Paraphrased, it essentially states that if you don't turn into a discipline problem, don't drop any classes and keep your grades more or less up, your odds of admission are assured.  The athletes (and other recruited students) apply to the respective schools in their early admissions process in October.  My son's likely letter arrived in the third week of October.  And the financial aid packages, at least for Harvard, Yale and Princeton are in the same vein as Stanford's.
On a side note, however, one of the other three Ivies listed here treated my son as the rough equivalent of a recruited walk-on.  They were only allowed two recruits annually, and that year they needed five players because five players were graduating.  They were losing their two starting middle hitters, so they were allocating their two spots for middles.  My son was an outside hitter, but they continued to recruit volleyball players to fill out their roster.  The coach told him he would advocate for him with admissions.  He implied that the odds were probably in the neighborhood of 60%.  My son declined the assistance and accepted Princeton's offer.  And sure enough, the other school recruited three more players, one of them almost a carbon copy of my older son (shortish outside hitter, big leaper, good passer, cannonball serve, a bit like Stanford's Jake Kneller).

[Mick]

[quote author=Papa John link=topic=9617.msg119730#msg119730 date=1433175101]
According to Rivals, Beau Bisharat has an offer from Yale. Just a guess, but I'm thinking that Yale is as selective academically for football offers as Stanford. But someone else on the CARDBoard must know better than I.

Since the Ivies (technically anyway) don't give athletic scholarships, I'm not sure just what the meaning of an "offer"is. Perhaps "we'd like you to come play football for us, so if you apply and are accepted, we'll consider you for need based financial help".
Supposedly the Ivies are a little looser on the requirements for need based financial help for athletes than non-athletes, but again that's anecdotal.
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Well, having had two sons go through the Ivy recruiting process, let me assure you that an "offer," complete with financial aid assurances is a standard process.  Every athletic team has a number of slots for which they must attract recruits.  The coaches in each sport lead the recruiting.  They vet the student, academics and all, and employ an administrator to liaise with admissions.  The outcome is what is known as a "likely letter."  Paraphrased, it essentially states that if you don't turn into a discipline problem, don't drop any classes and keep your grades more or less up, your odds of admission are assured.  The athletes (and other recruited students) apply to the respective schools in their early admissions process in October.  My son's likely letter arrived in the third week of October.  And the financial aid packages, at least for Harvard, Yale and Princeton are in the same vein as Stanford's.
On a side note, however, one of the other three Ivies listed here treated my son as the rough equivalent of a recruited walk-on.  They were only allowed two recruits annually, and that year they needed five players because five players were graduating.  They were losing their two starting middle hitters, so they were allocating their two spots for middles.  My son was an outside hitter, but they continued to recruit volleyball players to fill out their roster.  The coach told him he would advocate for him with admissions.  He implied that the odds were probably in the neighborhood of 60%.  My son declined the assistance and accepted Princeton's offer.  And sure enough, the other school recruited three more players, one of them almost a carbon copy of my older son (shortish outside hitter, big leaper, good passer, cannonball serve, a bit like Stanford's Jake Kneller).