OK, I can’t help myself: GO BEARS!
@Westernkid the bottom 25% at Harvard don’t have a 1540, not even close might want to revisit your numbers.
depends how talented you are. This year a B student with 1300 was admitted to an ivy for a sport. His athletic talent is amazing.
@TiggerDad , natHan chen scored an 800 on his math sat, so I suspect he would have made the academic cut as an unhooked student. Of course, he had one heck of a hook!
Figure skating is not a NCAA sport, so he would not have been a recruited athlete. Just his celebrity status may have given him an edge in admissions.
Definitions of a hook generally include people who are celebrities in their own right.
Recruited athletes aren’t limited to NCAA sports. Men’s rowing is not an NCAA sport but many schools do recruit and do give scholarships (if they otherwise give them to athletes). Figure skaters are recruited to some schools and given ice time.
Let’s not get off-topic. I have no idea if any schools recruit figure skaters, but I do know that Yale, where he will be attending, and Harvard, to which people assume (probably correctly) he applied, are not among them.
@Acrossthesea88 I don’t quite know any specific erg times they’d be expecting, but I’d assume a 2k sub 6:30 would be pretty appealing for a lightweight?
@RandomRower. 6:30 is probably a good ballpark but since you are going lightweight they’ll also be looking at your size. If a weight maker (<150lbs) they might be more forgiving of erg times, if heavier (>160) they might be looking for something under a 6:30 your senior year. I always find these kinds of threads difficult as eveyrone has an opinion but no one really knows what the coaches want without talking to them. Having said that I suspect you’ll also want to raise your academic test scores a bit to be given a serious look. There are less schools to which lighweights can be recruited vs heavyweights so coaches generally do not have as much pull for recruiting.