<p>What are the best or great Extra Curricular activities you have heard of someone participating in?</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
<p>ElWilson you taken any SATs yet?</p>
<p>As for ECs, just try out everything on offer at school, area etc. and pick a few you really enjoy and work at them. That's all you can do. Hopefully you already have a few you can work on.</p>
<p>Crew is the best. The recruit for that.</p>
<p>Rowing? Good. I row at Henley.</p>
<p>No. Crew. Not rowing.</p>
<p>Senate page.</p>
<p>What's crew?</p>
<p>Do they recruit for rowing?</p>
<p>Crew is the name of the sport where oyu have eight, six, or four people in a boat racing another boat a la Viking. </p>
<p>Isn't rowing just like, rowing and not actual teamwork, etc? </p>
<p>Anywyas, they recruit for crew, but mostly from New England prep schools. Je pense.</p>
<p>Nah rowing involves teamwork. I'm pretty much going to have to learn a new language if I come over to America.</p>
<p>Henley won't be enough to get recruited. If you'd seen the quality of a Harvard eight, you'd see why. It's gotta be Junior Worlds, Coupe at a push.</p>
<p>UKRUS, what is Coupe? And do you know what, in the way of stats, one needs to get recruited for men's crew at Harvard (erg scores etc)?</p>
<p>Olympic ice hockey medal; <em>not</em> speedskating.</p>
<p>I think my IMO gold medal helped me a lot.</p>
<p>Coupe de la Jeunesse is the international event you go to if you just miss out on the squad for the Junior World Championships.</p>
<p>I can't really give you any useful stats because it depends so much on how much you weigh, how well you row, plus I only know a couple of scores very vaguely. I can just repeat that the only guy I know who was properly recruited (i.e. got in despite average academics) went to Junior Worlds in his penultimate year of school - pretty damn good. Of the two other guys I know who made it with rowing as a big selling point, one made Junior Worlds in his penultimate year, the other made Coupe. </p>
<p>The standard really is very high - the Harvard eight beat GB a few years ago!</p>
<p>Thanks very much.</p>
<p>Swimming is the best. The times are individual. They speak for themselves.</p>