<p>How good do you have to be in Cross-Country, if you want to get recruited to Harvard? I have to know this ASAP. Thanks in advance.</p>
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<p>Girl in son's school recruited/accepted and will attend this fall, something like the third-best runner on her team, not a national contender, although the school has a leading program. I heard this is the first year H recruited heavily so the girl was in the right place at the right time.</p>
<p>It's a Div. I program. You probably needed a mile PR under 4:30 and be all-state or something similar to stand a chance of being recruited.</p>
<p>I can't speak for H specifically, but my understanding is that colleges generally do not recruit cross-country runners per se, but rather recruit based on runners' track times because it is too difficult to compare times across all cross-country courses. </p>
<p>Good x-country runners usually also run the 3200 or 2-mile in track, so those times are used to judge the runner's ability.</p>
<p>With that said, if a x-country runner places well in Footlocker or another well-regarded meet, then that would be considered if the runner does not also participate in track.</p>
<p>Individual aerobic sports with mostly independent, self-scheduled training, do not (either for individuals or as admissions selection factors across the applicant pool) have the same kind of negative correlation with academic performance that team sports do, nor the same implications of discipline, "leadership", etc. Cross-country runners actually had above-average GPAs in some study at elite schools.</p>
<p>Given the elaborate dance between coaches and admissions office about how low the Academic Index can go both for individual recruits and for entire team recruitments, this may be a game where the football team uses up many more of the formal or informal AI credits than the cross-country runners. That is, there may be a lot less love to go around for cross-country runners of the kind that might excuse them from ordinary academic requirements in admission. High SAT scores and grades may be more important than shaving down the race times.</p>
<p>Ives will run for the Crimson this fall.
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<p>Hirschboeck, Mark (Santa Margarita Catholic)
Lee, Thea (Carmel)
May, Hilary (Corona del Mar)
These distance runners were recruited this year from California high schools.
you can google them to see their performances in both cross-country races and track races.
you can also go to <a href="http://www.dyestatcal.com%5B/url%5D">www.dyestatcal.com</a> for a very nice college signings page.</p>