GPA v. Extracurricular

<p>Curious - if you had a couple ECs but a perfect GPA or like a 3.2 GPA and amazing ECs which would be the better fit?</p>

<p>A girl at my school (11th grade) just got a full ride at Princeton for rowing. I can’t even tell you how jealous I am :P. She’s really good at rowing and has similar stats to mine (she’s ranked first in our class, though, a bit higher than I am). It makes me wish they recruited martial artists :D.</p>

<p>There’s no GPA cutoff.</p>

<p>How about SAT? Do they actually have SAT cut off, but they just don’t want to show it explicitly?</p>

<p>There is not actually any cutoff.</p>

<p>I wish they recruited equestrians. Talk about making my life complete, haha.</p>

<p>scarlet123, are you Shawn Johnson?</p>

<p>Oh IvyEquestrian…AMEN to that. One (of many) reasons my D is looking so heavily at Ivies is that they’re “all that” AND have Equestrian teams!</p>

<p>Same! I’ve had such a hard time finding a GOOD school where I can continue to train at the level I’ve been training at! Of course, there are so many “horse schools,” but they’re really kind of awful.
What discipline does your D do? I’m an eventer, but considering doing the Low A/O jumpers with my new guy! :)</p>

<p>Scarlet123, if you were truly on the US Youth National Team for any sport, you would have been recruited and wouldn’t have made this thread to begin with. </p>

<p>With that in mind, I’d say your chances are still not horrible, but certainly not nearly as good as if you were recruited.</p>

<p>Not necessarily, Jersey13. Some of the Olympic sports are not sports that you can be recruited for at every school.
For example, say she happened to be an equestrian, like myself. I could be recruited by any NCAA Division 1 equestrian team (Brown, Georgia, Auburn, for example) but I can’t be recruited by Princeton because their team is a club sport. There are several sports that are not, for whatever reason, recruiter sports. Hers may be one of them.</p>

<p>If the school didn’t have the sport at a varsity level, it would severely decrease the potency of the “hook”.</p>

<p>I agree.
But I would thing that the qualities needed to make the international level of a sport would be very impressive to the AdCom, thus possibly raising the applicant’s chances. Not everyone has what it takes to take their passion to that level, and I think that passion and drive are really important factors in this process (after the numerical stats, of course). Or am I totally wrong here?</p>