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Oh ok... it was too good to be true any ways... do you happen to know why track recruiting is minimal? I know that Harvard's track team and especially the sprinters are mediocre at best.
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<p>Harvard didn't do any track recruiting for like a decade or so, but they just hired Jason Saretsky as the new head coach, who was a very active recruiter at Columbia and Iona. I assume that Saretsky is going to begin recruiting heavily at Harvard like he did at the other schools.</p>
<p>He seems to be a very enthusiatic guy, and he's young as well... Is he gonna use the "boobster" sytem?? That's the only way I could get recruited...</p>
<p>Byerly, the size of the Princeton lacrosse roster is within Ivy League (and college lacrosse) norms. Walk-ons are more common at Princeton as they are a particularly distinguished team.</p>
<p>The only requirement for non-football sports, now, is that, as a group, the average Academic Index must fall within one standard deviation of the school's average. The less revenue/interest a sport generates (you can probably determine the rankings for yourself) the less leeway it generally gets in the admissions process. To the extent that boosters are used they are kids who are very academically competitive but also fairly solid athletes in whatever sport, not total scrubs.</p>
<p>To all in this thread, if you think you are even in the ballpark for recruiting, it doesn't hurt to try. The best thing you can do is contact the coach of whatever sport you're interested in and try to get his/her attention. Qualities like heart/effort are especially important in the Ivy League because soooo many people quit their sport. If by chance you manage to grab the coach's eye do your best to communicate that your only two desires in the world are to a. go to "x" university and b. to play college "x". Also, if your primary interest is academics, you might wanna also try to do the same at some of the more academically prestigious Division III schools (Amherst, Williams etc.). Like I said, couldn't hurt.</p>
<p>To the assertion that squash is "a white guy" sport is ludicrous, while it is popular among caucasian social elitists, anyone who's ever heard or seen Princeton squash knows that the El Halaby brothers dominate the court, dispelling the "white guy" myth.</p>
<p>Princeton had the largest Ivy lax roster last year ... just as it does EVERY year ... and its not because "walk-ons are more common at Princeton." Who are you kidding?</p>
<p>So a 16 minute XC time and a 4:30 mile time coupled with a 2300+ SAT (and everything else a typical Ivy applicant has) can raise chances significantly or no?</p>
<p>I'm not an expert cross country/track specifically, but I would say yes. It would be worth your time, at the very least, to contact the track/cross country coaches at whatever school you're interested in, either through e-mail or online questionnaire. Might ask your coach to help you out as well (hammer home the stuff about committment, dedication, heart blah blah blah). If you're interested in any D3 colleges (the NESCAC schools such as Amherst, Williams etc., UChicago, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins or just about any other college you can name) it would be very well worth your time to contact them as well; athletic recruiting is no great priority at these places, but it's usually enough to put a solid (or, in your case, very solid) applicant over the top.</p>
<p>Do applicants have to register first with the NCAA or whatever it's called, first before contacting coaches, if they are seniors? Sorry for my ignorance, I am just a parent. thanks</p>
<p>No, you can contact the coach and than register for the ncaa clearinghouse. The NCAA clearinghouse can be done online at <a href="http://www.ncaaclearinghouse.com%5B/url%5D">www.ncaaclearinghouse.com</a> for a fee of $50. I would wait to contact the coach before paying the $ 50. Plus, if your looking at princeton i am almost certained that you will be cleared by the ncaa clearinghouse.</p>
<p>If the average SAT of a Ivy League school is around 2150. The standard deviation is usually around 130. The average of athletic recruits must be about 2020. This is just a rough estimate because Academic Index includes GPA(1/3 of total). The absolute minimum for individual is 1710. You have to be a super star in a major sport if your score is that low.</p>
<p>Pearfire, Yes. Some coaches like to hire some athletes, who probably will not see any actions, with high academic index just to pull the average up so that it is less than one standard deviation away from the mean.</p>
<p>Thx for the info leepet1. How come your so knowledgable about Ivy Recruiting? Well, I will definitely contact a coach then. So you think that someone with a 2250, 4.0 val who runs a about 11 sec. on 100m, could get recruited as a booster? Thx again</p>
<p>leepet1- "The average of athletic recruits must be about 2020.The absolute minimum for individual is 1710." </p>
<p>How can you put a minimum for SAT's when you still have to calculate class rank, along with the 2 or 3 SAT subject tests that required. If the AI on this website is accurate then you can get in with a low SAT reasoning test and a high class rank and strong SAT subject test. With your logic, how come a kid that got into a ivy league school with an 1100/1600 on their SAT?</p>
<p>Ok. I see what your saying but to putting a lowest possible score is incorrect. Lets say a student got a 500 on verbal and a 500 on math along with 600's on the subject tests. If he is ranked and is in top 5 or</p>
<p>10 than is academic index is 182. That is 11 points above the minimum. True, most ivy league school still probably can't help you if you have that low of a SAT score but if just shows you how flawed it is.</p>
<p>How do you translate ACT scores into the academic index? What if you did way better on the a ACT than the SAT and want those score put into the equation</p>
<p>Cailg- I believe most ivy's include the writing section as an SAT II but am not sure. I know columbia, penn, dartmouth, etc. only have you take to subject test so if this academic index is correct than they use the writing as a subject test. I am not sure about princeton, harvard and i believe yale as they make you take 3 subject test along with the SAT.</p>