<p>I am an international student in hong Kong. If I am not recruited for rowing, but I am competing at high level--international events in Asia. Will this help my chance of admission in the ivy leagues such as cornell/columbia, considering that they place quite an emphasis on rowing? My grade are decent--scoring around 2050 for sats and top 5 percentile in IB diploma (40-41points out of 45).
Do you think i have a chance at the ivy leagues?</p>
<p>Call the coaches of the teams you are interested in. Go online and fill out the recruiting questionairre for your sport first. If they are interested after hearing your information, they might still recruit you if they have spots left. If they have used all of their allotments, they might be willing to give a “push” which is helpful in admissions, but not the near-guarantee that actual recruitment is. Academic eligibility in the Ivy League is based on the Academic Index. If you do a search on CC, you will find lots of info on this.</p>
<p>Agree with keyleme, but I would email the coaches and include your height/weight, 2k time, national/international results. The SAT is a tiny bit on the low side, but it depends on your erg score and rowing results.</p>
<p>Definitely email the coaches. Keeping in contact and showing them that you’re interested is probably the best thing you can do to be recruited (besides being good at your sport)</p>
<p>thanks for the advice. I have contacted all my coaches. Some of them seemed quite interested. Well, just a worst case scenario, what if i do not get recruited. What will the admission officers see rowing as? Would it help at all in admissions?</p>
<p>If the coach does not actively recruit you (i.e. you are on his list of spots that admissions gives him), but he wants you on the team, he can put that on your file. This is known as a “push”. It is helpful at some Ivies, but not all…this per my son’s GC.</p>
<p>kyleme is right. the push can happen from RD through getting off the wait list.</p>