<p>hello, I'm a rising male junior, running track and cross country, and i am hoping to be recruited to run in the ivy league. Im curious to see how my overall picture is looking, including my extra curriculars. here's my general profile:
-4.0GPA going into junior year (took all honors courses fresh/soph years)
-in my highschool's highest band (will have done band all 4 years)
-will have done spanish all 4 years
-will be taking pre-calc regular and 3APs junior year(bio,eng,u.s.hist) and multiple APs senior year.
- track and cross country all 4 years. with multiple varsity letters. do they like to see that?
-i will most likely be captain of either cross country or track senior year as well.
-in addition i will be the leader of the education committee for an environmental club on campus
any feedback would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Are you planning on being recruited as an athelete?</p>
<p>yes, any advice is appreciated</p>
<p>if you were planning on being recruited, you’d A) be in touch with the coach and B) have many more accolades then just “varsity captain” to be honest. if you’re a recruit your high school performance doesn’t have to be 110% like everyone else, but that’s because they require you to be a great athlete</p>
<p>Are you the fastest runner in your event in your school district/county/region/state?
Does your high school coach think you have the times to be recruited?</p>
<p>as for accolades: i haven’t started my junior year yet… but what are some examples? qualifying for state or winning league? during my soph year i placed 3rd in L.A. county 800 meters championships. I was given the award “outstanding freshmen” during my freshmen year as well. and i have 2 varsity letters. i dont know if these things would count…</p>
<p>yes my coach believed i could run in college (when i told her i might want to run in college) and i currently have the fastest mile and 800m in my school and i am a rising junior.</p>
<p>No college cares if youre the fastest in your school. If you really plan on being recruited as a runner you have to be the fastest in your district, region, state and quite possibly have placed at nationals. Otherwise you can just use running as your main EC and show that you’ve devoted a lot of time to it which may help for admissions, but unless the times are there, don’t count on being recruited for it.</p>
<p>yes, without substantial times, it won’t happen. but i have a feeling i can improve a lot. hopefully. any additional advice about the ivy running programs etc. would be great!</p>
<p>nothing about the ivy running programs will really help you at this point until you have times competitive enough to be recruited, to be honest. you pretty much need to be a state champ. but since your from LA, california is a tough place b/c it’s chock full of incredible runners…you need to be among the best in your case…and def need to be competitive at nationals i.e. all-american</p>
<p>how do you become all-american? or is there something called all-academic or something? how would you get those kind of things??</p>
<p>You should post this in the athlete subforum (cleverly hidden amongst Specialty College Admissions Topics- see here [Athletic</a> Recruits - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/]Athletic”>Athletic Recruits - College Confidential Forums)). Also, it would be extremely helpful if you posted actual times, as they are the true indicator of whether you can become an elite college runner.</p>
<p>ok thanks. my sophomore year times were 4:38.11 for 1600m, 2:03.32 for 800m, and cross country 5k 17:40 (let me make it clear that the 5k time was on very little distance training) and i was injured soph year. actually, most of my training (mileage) up until this summer has been fairly light. so i feel i can improve with increased mileage. what do you think?</p>
<p>drop 20 seconds off your 1600, 10 seconds off your 800, and close to 2 minutes off your 5k…sorry</p>
<p>i know, those are my goals. and like i said… i hadn’t been training heavily and still achieved those times, so i know there is room for improvement. we’ll see what happens.</p>