<pre><code> Last fall, I decided to join my school's crew team as a coxswain. My school does two seasons of crew every year, fall and spring. I am a junior, but by the time I graduate, I would have done four season of crew.
However, I have a really busy academic schedule with lots of other ECs. Crew takes up a lot of time and I am considering quitting because I am so tired all the time. Does being a coxswain help college admissions among Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, especially since I started late? I have good grades and ECs, but could crew coxswain be the extra thing that gets me in?
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<p>The crew/coxswain won't really help unless you intend to pursue it at the college level - to which it could well be your hook - if you don't want to pursue it tho - it will be looked as another EC for you - tho it will help to show a good picture of how you spent your high school years/time.</p>
<p>According to my cousins, who both go to Phillips Exeter Academy (one of the most elite eastern boarding schools), all of the recruited athletes to the tippy-top colleges from Exeter are crew people. So, I dunno, just wanted to throw in that opinion.</p>
<p>I row crew, and I don't know anything about coxes getting recruited. My guess would be that it doesn't happen very often. If you're curious, call coaches at the schools you're looking at and ask if they recruit coxswains. However, I think they'd probably reserve whatever recruiting weight they have for getting rowers.</p>
<p>thnnx for all the replies!
I go to a good prep school in the midwest..and I definitely want to pursue crew in college...I am just afraid I started too late, will I still have a change of getting recruited if I do three seasons in a year and a half (fall '07, spring '08, fall '08)? I like the sport, I just didn't want it to be a waste of time... :)
anyone have information on college recruiting coxswains, which colleges are most into that, etc?</p>
<p>Our coxswain this year is getting recruited by Harvard and MIT. Their freshmen coaches are fighting over him now.</p>
<p>He is an intense coxswain, one of the best you can have. And he knows a lot about rowing he's like our assistant coach. He is also an intense scholar (projected saluditorian). So basically I think you should have your academics up. Also you might want to know that he visited those places a lot of times and actually went on launches with the coaches. And since a coxswain does not have erg score to show how good you are and limited by the ability of the crew, you should really have your coach on your side so that he/she can say something nice about you to colleges.</p>
<p>A coxswain can be a very powerful leadership role on resume. That is for sure.</p>
<p>I started rowing my junior year too, and as a rower I am getting pursued by some decent division III schools, mostly from the northeast. So you shouldn't be too worried about it. Because experienced coxswains are always in demand - there are always 4 or 8 times as many rowers out there.</p>
<p>FINALLY: CREW IS NEVER A WASTE OF TIME!!! Get rid of your negative attitude or it will show in the cox box. We hate that.</p>
<p>Our coxswain from an excellent program, with mediocre stats (i.e, less than 3.7 and I don't know the test scores) was recruited heavily by UCBerkeley and UMichigan.</p>