<p>HYP refers to an athletic and academic agreement between these three schools. It also indirectly refers to academic excellence. only on cc will you see stanford, or sometimes stanford and mit added into this acronym. yes stanford may be of equal academic excellence, but hyp is an established acronym that many people (even not on cc) would understand.</p>
<p>I don't think you'll see HYP used very often outside of college-admissions discussions.</p>
<p>"The Ivy League" you will see used very often, but people think Duke and Georgetown are Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>actually, there are annual track and field meets called the "HYP's" and an alumni club in pittsburgh called the harvard-yale-princeton, or more commonly HYP, club.</p>
<p>there's a lot of athletic history between the three schools, including their days as the "big three" of college football. this, i think, is what johhnyk was getting at earlier, here.</p>
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<p>actually, there are annual track and field meets called the "HYP's" <</p>
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<p>f.scottie - are you referring to the "heps" - as in the Heptagonals? That is the name for the Ivy XC and track league meets. Never heard of "hyps" (in the context of XC and T&F).</p>
<p>nope. see, e.g.:</p>
<p>f.scottie - apologies for questioning, thanks for the information.</p>
<p>Congrats on your recruitment Koala! Though if it turns out that you do end up at Princeton in RD, that would be fabulous too. Good luck, wherever you go, wherever you run.</p>
<p>Koala717,
what a treat to be recruited by any of the IVYs....hard when you have fallen in love with one only to be courted by another...but, there are some fun perks perhaps by running for Harvard....one is a bi-annual track meet they do with Yale vs Oxford/Cambridge in England... the meet is every 2 yrs....it was at Harvard in 2004, so it will be in England in 2006, then at Yale in 2008 then back in England in 2010...etc etc... my H took my youngest son (8th grade at the time) along with some of his classmates to the meet to watch the level of competition and see the fun of the century old contests..... H has high hopes for our S#2 that track may be a hook for him....we tease him today that he is a track savant...</p>
<p>you should be quite proud that your track efforts and results so far have gotten you crimson attention, that is truly worth running towards!</p>
<p>Thank you, cricket and maineparent! Maineparent - that track meet sounds like fun. Wow, running against oxbridge... that sounds so exciting!!! :D</p>
<p>heyyy what event do you run and what sort of times doyou need to be recruited?? esp by harvard??</p>
<p>yeahyeahyeah - i just answered your PM! :)</p>
<p>i was wondering the same thing...
what would you need for track and cross country
this kid in my schools gonna def get recruited nxt year (he does both)
not that I have any chance of being recruited...</p>
<p>There's a girl at my school who's being recruited for xc/track at Princeton, Yale, and UPenn. Her times are 18:xx (< not sure of the exact, but it's definitely 18 something) for xc (and this is her first year doing it!) and 11:05 in the 2 mile (last spring was her first year running). She also runs the mile in 5:06. I think she is so appealing because she has the potential to be amazing since she just started and her times can be lowered even further.</p>
<p><--- 700th post... woohoo! :D</p>
<p>girls have it so easy eh...
i run 4:40 for mile and around 18:00 for 5K
no good for a guy...
didn't mean to be sexist</p>
<p>lol what's easy for a guy to run is freaking hard for a girl to run, so we don't exactly have it "easy"... ;)</p>