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<p>^ You could probably write an inspirational sob story.</p>
<p>^kwu, that’s unnecessarily harsh.</p>
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<p>I’m not overly familiar with their swimming program, but from what I’ve gathered, it’s not relatively stong. When I checked the NCAA [url=<a href=“http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-swim/division_i3.html#]website[/url”>http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-swim/division_i3.html#]website[/url</a>], Harvard didn’t rank in the top 25. Perhaps that information is outdated/incorrect, but for some reason I doubt it. If you were to try out, I think that you would at least be taken seriously, given your past record.</p>
<p>I don’t know what your specialty is, but the women’s swim team is pretty good. 200 IM girls go 2:00 - 2:02, 50 Free 23.3 - 23.7, 100 Fly 54.5 - 55.4, you get the idea. If you’re not at that level anymore, I sort of agree with kwu - you could probably write a great essay on your experience.</p>
<p>Thanks, I know Harvard’s swim team in really good. I used to go a 56.45, not quite their top. I am/was a butterflyer- 100 and 200 fly, both quadAs. I’ll just try my best to get accepted for my more holistic package, rather than a recruitment. I hope the adcoms will just see how much work I put in before this accident. And I already have a topic for my essay, and I heard that adcoms are tired of sports injury stories.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Maybe have that as your supplemental essay? Skater girl at my school swept YPSM (she did NOTNOTNOT deserve it, but for reasons not resume-related) with LLs from Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia but was (and is still) waitlisted at Harvard. She sort of quit skating and sort of still does it at the same level as before (I don’t know it’s all very contradictory) because of a spinal injury after her sophomore year. I think that was her main essay topic. (Skating + why I don’t so much any more, that is…)</p>
<p>To people saying his SAT scores are bad… plenty of people get into Harvard with the same scores and aren’t recruited athletes as well. Congrats, even though you won’t read this!</p>
<p>Lol @ Silverturtle. How was affirmative action relevant in this case? This was a student athlete, who was not only gifted at track, but a stellar student too. You are an incredibly ignorant, jealous, and spiteful person, and quite frankly its pathetic.</p>
<p>^ Are you talking to me?</p>
<p>There are plenty of scholar-athletes turned away annually by Harvard. What’s problematic is that race may have been the OP’s strongest hook.</p>
<p>IMO, it’s far more pathetic to reanimate this corpse just to insult a poster.</p>
<p>@ silverturtle </p>
<p>I believe Langdon was saying “Lol at you” * new thought: * Caulfield1 is arrogant…</p>
<p>It depends on two factors-- what are your best times in the past two or so years-- then check out this year’s team records and see where you stack up. The other question is the extent of your injuries. Most coaches, including the Ivies, are careful with “likely letters” and will be appropriately concerned that the injury you sustained does not increase the likelihood that you are more prone to become re-injuried. To over come that you need to have appropriate documentation from a sports medicine doctor such as Lyle Micheli. Each team has a questionnaire that a prospective athlete needs to fill out that will tell you what questions the coaches want. Also know that Tim Murphy and Stephanie Murkowski both have a strong belief in the use of long yardage as a training technique. This can bring out a latent injury if it is not completely healed. </p>
<p>Most of the coaches are starting to put swimmers on the radar screen sometime in their junior year (sometimes, although they won’t contact them, they may track them as early as freshman year). If you aren’t on their radar screen and you think after doing the above research/analysis that you would be competitive for the program, your club coach can be in contact–high school swimming without also having USA Swim club training is often insufficient, so getting the club coach is more important in most cases than the high school coach.
Good luck. Remember, even if you are not recruited, all coaches in the IVies welcome students “walking on.” I hope you have a chance to swim in Blodgett.</p>
<p>Congrats! I agree with the majority of the other posts! You deserved it! Good luck on the years ahead!</p>
<p>Im sorry but if you were white and slow.</p>
<p>You wouldn’t be in.</p>
<p>Congrats token89… My dreams are the same… ( battered for a long time)… now I will try to get it…</p>
<p>dude really nice job. I think Im gonna start track.</p>
<p>Running track for no other reason than getting into Harvard will NOT get you into Harvard. Nice try, though.</p>
<p>token89 should be graduating rather soon :)</p>
<p>2007!?! This may win the prize for oldest revived thread ever. </p>
<p>Please use old threads for information only; closing.</p>