Episode Transcript
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[00:01:10] Speaker B: welcome to this week's edition of in the Clubhouse with EMD Baseball. I'm Andy Kiri Kitties, joined by my Wonderful Co host, Mr. Keith Glasser. How we doing, sir?
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Wonderful. How are you? Oh, great. Wow. No, no, I'm great.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Hey,
[00:01:23] Speaker A: 300 plus episodes. I can't, I can't mess that one up. I'm great.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: You know, we had a, we had a rough start to getting lost.
We
[00:01:32] Speaker A: did so that. It was a sarcastic wonderful. Because I was I experiencing technical difficulties with my background here. I gave it the Bill O'Reilly Ferris man.
Another famous Maris grad. You know, now we'll do it live prevailed. And my technical difficulties resolve themselves.
And here we
[00:01:54] Speaker B: are and we find ourselves here to talk.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: I'm great.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: We're going to talk about something that has absolutely nothing to do with baseball.
Very important to the recruiting process, which is we are on a speeding bullet train to application submission windows, which you'd be shocked at how many people reach out to us or have questions or may or, or are wondering, hey, we've been recruited. Do we need to do all of this?
And the short answer is yes. I'm gonna kick it over to you for the long answer of why and what's really important.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: Sure.
Yeah. No, it's a, it's actually a question we get quite frequently, not only in our, our seminars and, but with people that we work with of like, all right, I'm committed. Do I, do I have to officially apply?
Yeah. You can't just show up in September or August next year and be like, hey, I'm here committed. The baseball team last year and here I am.
No. So you're gonna have to fill out your application whether it's gonna be the common, the coalition or the, the school's app.
And then you're gonna, you know, obviously if you're committed at this point in time, you can just submit one application to the school it is that you're applying to and then have your guidance counselor submit most of your, you know, academic stuff through whatever portal portal that is that they use. But you're also gonna have to fill out, you know, your, your extracurriculars, you have to do your essay, all of those things, any supplemental materials that you're gonna want to send along to admissions for your application. So it's just kind of one of those things that, you know, early decision one is, you know, sneaking up on us. We're recording on the 27th of October, so within the next two weeks, most early decision deadlines are going to be, you know, either have been met or will be met in the very near future.
You know, so if you've committed and you're, you're, you're going early decision one, you want to get all this stuff kind of squared away now if you haven't already, right, like, you know, hey, I'm going to get my application in, I'm going to get my essay done.
And the other side of it too is like, even if you have committed, right, and even if you have gotten a likely letter, you know, or you're at the division, you know, whichever level it is, like, you can't just mail in the application.
Like, just as an FYI, like you can't mail in your essay and be like, hi, I'm Keith.
I'm coming here to play baseball the end. Like, you, you have to actually do something, you know, that and answer the questions and, and meet the requirements for what that application is saying so that you can be admitted into that school.
But just kind of thought it was a, a pertinent topic as we're kind of staring down the, the, the, the barrel of the early decision one and, and soon to be early decision two deadlines. And then, you know, in the not so distant future is the regular decision that will be popping up. So, you know, depending on where it is that you're going and what it is that you have on, on the docket for yourself. You know, get all of this stuff in order so that it's not a, a straight up panic button moment as the time is winding down.
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[00:06:26] Speaker B: yeah, hopefully on as of October 27th, you've, you've reached out to your desired recommendation folks and you, you've done your supplements or whatnot. But yeah, it's.
I think the only thing I would add is that not only can you not cash it in with your application in terms of like just half ass in the essay or, you know, maybe not submitting it completely, you also need to continue to do well in school, specifically if you are applying to a school that would fall in that high academic category, because they're gonna check on some things and sometimes admissions, they're gonna be contingent on your ability to perform in the classroom for the remainder of your senior.
Cashing it in and just saying, hey, I got, you know, so and so said I'm getting into school.
Don't, don't put those coaches in a position where they have to make that phone call because you didn't do your part.
I think that's the only other thing I would add. But I mean, I think this goes along with a lot of stuff that we talk about, which is do things to the best of your ability. Like, we've talked about it on the academic side. Like, it's not about being an A plus student for everybody. Like, if you're a B student, be a B student. You don't. Just don't be a C student. Same thing with your application. If you're, you know, you're trying to get this right, you're trying to leave a good impression. You want to make sure that everything goes really smooth, like, put a good foot forward, take your time, write your essays, make sure it's complete, you know, hand in all the supplementals, anything that could be in addition to, to kind of your standard.
And there's really no excuse not to, but you brought this up when we were talking this morning. He was like, yeah, we probably need to. We need to take a couple minutes and make sure that we get the word out there. So.
Anything else, Anything else you want to add?
[00:08:16] Speaker A: No, I just think that, you know, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that the overwhelming majority of schools, your application has to be in by the deadline.
So even if you have dragged your feet on this, you still got time.
But, you know as long as your application's in by the deadline, all your other stuff can come after that, right? Like, you know, your guidance counselor is going to have to send the majority of your stuff over anyways via whatever online platform they use. So, you know, it's not necessarily an instantaneous thing, but as long as your app is in by the deadline, you'll be all set. But the. The. The hope is that you are on top of this and you've applied already and your. Your stuff is already starting to trickle in so that you don't have to.
You don't have to get hounded by the coaching staff of why your stuff is not in yet.
That would be the only thing I'd add.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: All right, short, Sweet. To the point.
We'll catch up with you next week. Thanks, everybody.
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