<p>In high school I was a track runner. A really good one at that, but come senior year I got injured and so I didn't have a chance to show or go for the track team at my university. Walking on also didn't work out because my knee was still injured, but it hasn't been hurting for two months and ever since I've adamantly been working out in terms of weights, running, etc. </p>
<p>I'm thinking about transferring out of my university to either Harvard, Brown, or Stanford, and I've looked at the times and I'm definitely within range to run competitively at Harvard and Brown. Would I be able to apply as a transfer student hoping to run track? Or would I not be offered that?</p>
<p>I'm a first year college student.</p>
<p>You’d have to get into the school first. I’d talk to the schools’ track teams, first. You have to qualify academically, obviously.</p>
<p>harvard and stanford? no, definitely not. harvard and stanford generally don’t use their transfer admissions for athletes, its pretty rare and uncommon to find more than one athlete in the transfer class, and you would have to be an all-star and someone they would really want, not someone who would just sit on the bench.</p>
<p>something doesn’t add up though. first, if you were as good as you say, you would have been recruited late during your junior year, possibly during the summer or even early senior year.
second, you are saying that you have apparently not ran or worked out in several months, maybe even a year, and all of a sudden your coming off of an injury and running times that are competitive at the collegiate level? but surely you would be able to walk on to your own school’s track team if you were that good? <em>confused</em></p>
<p>I came from a poor high school in a district where Ivies don’t, probably ever, look for their athletes. This, along with me wanting to talk to the Ivies my senior year, led to me not talking to them late my Junior year. Come my Senior year, I got injured. This may be because I gained 30 pounds of muscle (I was quite the stick my Junior year) over a period of 9 months. I have worked out consistently for the past… since June? I’ve done work-outs that don’t have running involved, but gear me towards making me a better runner, then come September I was able to run again, and have been running, and feeling better than ever. I’ve even timed myself and am running faster times than I was when I was in high school. Now, I understand why you think “Why can’t you just walk on to your own school track team?” Well, it’s quite hard when my school’s track team is 3 years back-to-back-to-back national champions in Division 1 outdoor track. I’ve compared my times to the guys here, and I’m simply not within range. I lack that crucial second/2 seconds.</p>