Know a fine young student who had straight A’s, 99th percentile on SATs, and a boatload of high school science research experience who got waitlisted at Hopkins.51percentcorn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:09 amI've relayed this story before but I was told by a very respected Hopkins coach in another sport a few years ago that lacrosse was the only sport that enjoyed "eased" admission criteria.
The key words in that sentence may be "a few years ago" but there is still anecdotal evidence to support it continued
First, Petro verbals - undeniably early - almost always showed up on campus. Again, read carefully - that does not mean I am saying Petro got all the recruits he wanted - I am saying when IL and TX's Recruting Rundown used to give a list of Hopkisn verbals 2-3 years before they could be admittted - they still showed up. I am sure Petro's good but nobody's that good to successfully predict academic performance for 12-15 people on an annual basis and have them all turn out to be suitable to RD from his academic standpoint
Second, I doubt Milliman would sign up for 5 years after being told his recruits had to make Hopkins standard admission criteria - I wouldn't
Third, I admit if I read of a Hopkins verbal I will spend 3-5 minutes looking at the invariable Youtube highlight video where the recruit often posts some level of academic performance - most often his current GPA. I have seen recent GPAs that would cleearly not make the standard cut at Hopkins there are several that would but there are some that would not.
Without some “help”, Hopkins would probably have maybe one or two players (if that) on the lacrosse team.
DocBarrister