NASA OSTEM internships now require college enrollment, closing the main NASA pipeline to current high school students; SEES, run with the University of Texas at Austin, is the pathway that remains. Here is the current eligibility, the SEES calendar, and how to build a NASA-grade record.
Bank of America Student Leaders pays $17 per hour for a six-week nonprofit internship and, as of the 2026 cycle, requires a completed diploma plus 12 to 18 college credits - a change most guides have missed. Here is the current eligibility, selection rubric, pay, and application calendar.
Texas A&M admitted 59% of in-state and 49% of out-of-state applicants in the latest published split, and top 10% auto-admits filled 41.8% of the Fall 2025 class. Verified numbers, the nonresident tuition waiver, and strategy for nonresident families.
Twelve Division I sports have their own NCAA recruiting calendar under Bylaw 13.17; every other sport follows a short list of shutdowns and dead periods. The 2026-27 dates for football, basketball, lacrosse, golf, baseball, and softball, what each period allows, and a grade-by-grade timeline.
The Ivy League states that there are no academic or athletic scholarships at its eight schools and that aid is need-based only. What that means for a recruit: how aid estimates work, how they can be compared across Ivy League schools, and what the coach and the pre-read decide.
The NCAA Division I Council ended the National Letter of Intent program in October 2024 and replaced it with written offers of athletic aid signed on the same dates. What a verbal commitment is worth, when a written offer may be made, the signing dates, and how the Ivy League and Division III commit.
Division I athletes may spend up to 20 hours a week on countable athletic activity in season; Division III schools offer no athletic scholarships and hold athletes to the same admissions standards as everyone else. D1 vs. D3 for the strong student, and where the Ivy League and NESCAC fit.
Harvard has historically sent about 200 likely letters to recruited athletes and 100 to other applicants in a cycle, against a first-year class of roughly 1,650. What a likely letter means, the Ivy League rules that govern it, when it can arrive, and what it does not guarantee.
Under NCAA Division I roster limits in force since July 1, 2025, a football team may carry 105 athletes, a soccer team 28, and a tennis team 10. What separates a recruited athlete, a preferred walk-on, and a walk-on, and what each status means for admissions and financial aid.
Five Ivy League programs publish track and field recruiting standards: a men’s 400m of 47.50 to 48.80, a women’s 800m of 2:09 to 2:12, a men’s 1600m of 4:08 to 4:14. The published marks from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Duke, MIT, and Seton Hill, and what sits behind them.
College baseball recruiting starts later than most sports by rule: Division I coaches may not call or write before August 1 of junior year or meet a recruit off campus before September 1. The 2026-27 recruiting calendar, camp rules, 34-player rosters, and how the Ivy League and Division III recruit.
What D1 swimming times get a swimmer recruited: Princeton publishes recruited and walk-on times for every event, such as 44.49 and 45.79 in the 100 free, beside the NCAA 2027 Division I standards and the Division II and III A and B cuts, event by event, with the recruiting rules.
College hockey recruiting starts earlier than any other sport: Division I men’s coaches may call a recruit and host unofficial visits from January 1 of sophomore year. Most recruits then play junior hockey, and since 2025 Major Junior players keep NCAA eligibility. The Ivy League path.
College soccer recruiting runs on the general Division I dates: coaches may write and call from June 15 after sophomore year and meet a recruit off campus from August 1 of junior year. What soccer ID camps can and cannot do under NCAA rules, the dead periods, 28-player rosters, and the Ivy League.
NCAA Division I coaches may not send recruiting correspondence to a prospect before June 15 after sophomore year in most sports, and Division II coaches have no limits after the same date. How to email college coaches: timing, what to include, the athletic resume, follow-up, and templates.
Field hockey recruiting runs on the general Division I dates and one of the simplest NCAA calendars: contact periods from August 1 to December 19 and January 2 to July 31, a quiet period December 20 to 23, and a shutdown December 24 through January 1. Camps, rosters, and the Ivy League and NESCAC.