<p>Does anyone have advice regarding D1 crew recruiting? My GPA is competitive (but slightly lower) than many past admits to HYPS and other ivies (my GPA is much more competitive at the other ivies). I am a junior, and my 2k erg is 6:40. Expected SAT is a minimum of 2200. What kind of erg scores am I going to need to get recruited to a top D1? Should I do summer camps at any of these schools? Any other advice is appreciated....</p>
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I am 6 foot 2 or 3</p>
<p>Re erg scores: 6:20 or better. Re camps: If you have a dream school, I’d say it is worth attending their camp if you can but your rowing would improve a lot more by going to a sculling camp like Craftsbury!</p>
<p>I have already attended Craftsbury. What should my SAT’s scores be in order to be in the upper echelons of d1 Ivy recruits? Also, what is a general timeline for when various erg scores should be acheived? For example, what erg scores should I have in the winter of this year (Junior year), what should I have by the summer, and what should I have during/by the fall of my senior year?</p>
<p>Over 700 on all sections of SAT and SAT2s if you can. There is no timeline - get as fast as you can as fast as you can. Get to 6:20 or under by the winter of your Junior year if possible. On the other hand, if you can make a big drop the summer before Senior year, it will make a huge difference. Coaches love to see big drops close to Senior year - it means you have not maxed out your potential yet.</p>
<p>You will get a serious look at top schools (HYPS) with a sub-6:25 ERG and stellar academics, but your chances of a LL coming out of an OV will increase if you can pull a sub-6:20 by September of your recruiting year. As 3xboys notes, the pattern of your PRs matter as they signal potential upside and drive. </p>
<p>There are other factors considered. Size matters; taller (6 foot 4 and above) is better. Length of time rowing, where you row and your record in competition are important. Three of the top schools increasingly recruit internationally (Harvard and now Yale) drawing from the UK, AU, NZ and, even Serbia and from the US Jr. National team (Princeton). Harvard interestingly draws its few US rowers increasingly from one school, Belmont Hill. Stanford is an outlier in the group and for a number of reasons it’s hard to draw a bead on their approach. I know a boy who is a Freshman there now who had a 6:32 ERG but quite stellar academics. Last year’s top recruit, Austin Hack, ended up there, but they are not a strong program comparatively. </p>
<p>[The</a> Day - Austin Hack Heads to Stanford | News from southeastern Connecticut](<a href=“http://www.theday.com/article/20100624/NWS01/306249637]The”>Austin Hack Heads to Stanford)</p>
<p>Your initial drawing card will be your academics. Shoot for a composite 2300 SAT score with 720+ on all SAT IIs. This will be what coaches notice first about you. </p>
<p>Good luck. You have time to improve your ERG substantially.</p>
<p>If you have better SATs then you are a more attractive candidate even if you have a slower erg because you can get the dumb dumbs in who can pull 6:10s and so for like HYP this means 2300+ but for other schools it may just mean 2200+(keep in mind these are not the required scores for you to be a viable candidate they are just the thresholds where your scores will make you have a better shot 2000-2100 seems to be the point of viability for most). In terms of when to get your erg down, from my experience (and im a LW) you can be counted out by some of the top programs by the end of the summer. But whatever the HW good erg number is (sub 6:40 for LWs) as long as you have it by julyish then you should still be in good shape</p>
<p>“If you have better SATs then you are a more attractive candidate even if you have a slower erg because you can get the dumb dumbs in who can pull 6:10s.”</p>
<p>Not quite. The rule that the average Academic Index score for recruited athletes falls within one standard of deviation of the student bodys mean is applied at the University level, rather than for each team.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that crew is a sport with usually very strong academic candidates in addition to top athletic skills. (My son, a LW, had an erg time in the low 6:20s and a 36 on the ACT).</p>
<p>I think csyankees9 is correct although maybe not in terms of “dumb dumbs”. My son, a LW rower who recently graduated from an Ivy (not HYP) was an “academic recruit”. He had a very good but not great erg score and high ACT, GPA and other academic metrics. the coach used him to balance out some of the other recruits who had lower (but not really low) academics but better erg scores.</p>