College recruiting letters and what they really mean can be confusing when you are just getting started with the recruiting process.
One way you can look at recruiting letters us by keeping score: how many letters did you get today; how many letters did you receive this week, etc. It’s all a game when you really get down to it.
Many high school players feel that when they get a letter from an interested college program that it means they are being recruited by that college program. This is not true.
These letters are just Letters of Interest. There are a hundred other student athletes who have also received letters in the mail from that same college program.
Receiving a letter from an interested coach is nice but I would rather get a phone call from a college coach because a phone call carries more weight than a recruiting letter.
Does a letter from a college program that was sent to your school have more value than a letter mailed to your house or is it the other way around?
There are many high school ballplayers who get letters every day and they are not jumping for joy like they just won the lottery.
These ballplayers keep the whole letter thing in perspective because they understand that most of these letters are just junk mail anyway and that they may never receive a legitimate offer from these programs anyway.
For all you student athletes who somehow believe that a letter from a college coach means you’re being recruited, it’s not totally true.
Sometimes these Letters of Interests from college program can be used to keep you, the student athlete, on the hook thinking that you really are being recruited.
It would go over more powerful if student athletes wrote letters of interests of that program to those coaches then when they write back, it’s all good. You know them and now you have established their trust.
The bottom line here is recruitment letters from college programs serve some purpose but just don’t be overwhelmed by the process.
