<p>Ok. So i am and have been on a varsity crew team since my freshman year. Even my novice year i rowed on the varsity second boat. I have erg (for those of you that dont know, an erg is the name for the rowing machine. Technically it is an ergometer. there, you learned something new) erg scores that are better at my age than my friend, the boys crew coach. She actually was on the junior national team as a senior and was recruited to Brown. However she also graduated fro Philips Exeter Academy and had a wonderful GPA and im sure SATs. </p>
<p>If one is taking the absolute haardest courses offered at ones school, receiving a GPA of about 3.8 for the remainder of one's highschool year, with an exception of freshman year, where the GPA was about 3.6...(completely ignore my run on sentences, its winter break.) </p>
<p>AND if i was on the junior national team for rowing, one out of eleven girls from across the country, thus competing at the junior world rowing championships, in addition to many diverse EC's including a summer spent in Ecuador for immersion and advancement in spanish language, as well as community service,</p>
<p>what do u feel are my chances of being recruited to Yale? Given all these circumstances. I understand SAT and ACT and GPA are important, however if they were not EXTRAORDINARY, are my chances completely annulled?</p>
<p>haha yea its kind of all thrown in there. yes i am a junior. </p>
<p>i have not been recruited. i am asking people's opinion on my chances of being recruited at Yale or any other Ivy. </p>
<p>My statistics in crew are better than those of my friend who was on the Junior National Team for crew. She was eventually accepted and recruited at Brown.</p>
<p>What im saying is, given my GPA information in my other post, and the fact that i have the potential and am awaiting to see if i am on the junior national team ( i have a very very strong chance of being on this team), along with my EC's...</p>
<p>does anyone feel i have the chance to be recruited at an ivy league school such as yale?</p>
<p>i feel being able to say i was on the junior national team would be a big hook...but id love other opinions</p>
<p>Have you spoken w/ your coach? How many kids from your school are IVY recruits in any given year? I'd say if you think you are going to be a recruit you will be fine.......only you can answer about the history of your school and IVY scouts.</p>
<p>my coach and i have discussed my goals in this sport since sophomore year. he has been working with me very closely to make my results in this sport quite competitive. </p>
<p>In response to the question about IVY recruits- there is an average of 2 or 3 students who are recruited for various sports in the IVY league. However, none of these students have been recruited for crew.</p>
<p>All the seniors who row and have rowed on the varsity level are not as competivie in crew and in academic goals as i am. However the seniors that choose to row in college are all recruited. These seniors, however, dont wish to attend IVY league schools, as it is an extraordinary reach. Seniors from last year were recruited to Northeastern (2), Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2), Barry College (1), St. Lawrence</p>
<p>If you are at the national distinction level and a girl..........of course you would have a chance. I don't know how much experience your coach will have had with IVY recruiting since it seems your school does other traking. Good luck and I'll bet you will be surprised at the opportunities you will have.</p>
<p>This has the Brown's admission statistics from last year. Your crew is a big hook (unless you have the bad luck that the team is already set!) such that I would guess that you would only need to be, what, something like 25th percentile to have a good chance at admission???</p>
<p>And you can boost your SAT scores a lot, of course, by studying. Search the CC site for xiggi's tips on sat preparation.</p>
<p>well i am most definately 25th percentile, that is amazing tho. i have a friend who wasnt extraordinary at rowing, his erg scores werent the best, but harvard contacted him and was interested in his rowing ability. his grades however werent up to par so he was recruited and recently accepted ED to northeastern. rowing is a big deal i guess.</p>
<p>the team has certain ID camps, where they see u do a 2k (rowing 2000m on a ergomete, rowing machine) they then look at ur times and afte ra long amount of time and such, the team gets set, im going to an id camp in boston in february, and world championships are in august, so there is time.</p>
<p>oo and i am definately going to study for SATs, i have friends who kind of sat through freshman and sophomore years as well as their summers, and they regret it. i have goals and i kno that sitting on my butt and not making them happen will yield very few results.</p>
<p>yea my sister, who is a senior and has so far received 2 defferrals, is kind of ****ed that im sitting here contemplating my chances of getting into an ivy league school in part because i can row. she says its unfair that someone who rows schould be given the place of admission compared to maybe an academically stronger student. </p>
<p>being a rower, i just told her it was the other applicants fault for not rowing.</p>
<p>That's a recruitable time, easily. Just work to move under 7:20 to get that nice 7:1(x) action, and you're pretty much good to go. If you're SAT's don't go well, just train hard through the summer and pull a hard 2k before school starts, I'd guess that academics pretty much stop mattering anywhere below 7:10 ;).</p>
<p>dande114, I myself am being recruted not only by yale but many others for one varsity sport. What I suggest you do is write the head coach of the team at yale, and get your name out there....don't just sit around waiting for colleges to come to you, you have to take the first step to get the whole reqruitment process moving. Also, you might want to get in contact with other good programs just to get your name out there and have more options.</p>