02-03-2017, 10:38 AM
It's also important to remember that, in the UC system at least, all admissions are provisional. So you can be admitted in March, but if your senior-year spring semester grades aren't up to snuff, you can lose your place:
http://admission.universityofcalifornia....decisions/
It's entirely possible that a player is admitted to Cal or UCLA, signs an LOI, but is then dropped due to poor academic performance in the student-athlete's final semester.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia....decisions/
It's entirely possible that a player is admitted to Cal or UCLA, signs an LOI, but is then dropped due to poor academic performance in the student-athlete's final semester.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)