This is a hoax. The Australian record is 11.11. Get back to reality. A sophomore in high school running on bad grass with so so shoes doing 11.2. It’s not credible. Plus she (if she is a she) posted on another thread about starting this neat startup (in Australia as a sophomore) that was very successful but they fired her. Of course she doesn’t have any emails.
I hope Stanford admissions has more sense than a lot of people on this board.
This isn’t a hoax… my dad nearly ran in the Olympics and trained everyday up until it but he got cervical cancer. He used to train me when I was younger but when my parents divorced moved overseas. My Mum was very fast also, around 13s. And yes, I got fired from my startup - so what? And I lost the emails because I didn’t know that when I deleted emails from my new macbook it deleted it from the acutal mailbox. My old computer the emails would still remain on the online version. So believe it or not, I can run 11.2s, give or take a 0.xx seconds.
And so what the Australian record is 11.11s? Have you ever heard of someone who has a natural talent only to be discovered later on? I never even intended on starting this discussion or getting recruited, intially in another post I just asked if you had to do athletics to get into stanford and that I’m a fast runner, and it just went on from there. So, sorry if you don’t believe me, but that’s not my problem and I’m on CC to get advice not to troll.
And our startup was remote. We all worked online.
@theivyleague, I’ve treated you with courtesy and seriousness throughout, only to be called “gullible” for being duped. I hope that’s not the case - I try to give good advice to young people who could benefit from it, and it would be disturbing to find someone creating a hoax. I’m going to assume that is not the case, at the risk of looking like even more of a fool than already suggested by @fredthered.
However, I would recommend full and open disclosure. Your original thread mentioned an ACT of 33, which apparently is not a real score but only a projected one according to another thread you started within the past week:
That thread also states that you are a sophomore, which was not clear from your recent posts. If so, and if you are really anywhere near that fast, then you have lots of time, which is on your side. Your basic strategy should be:
The Ivies use something called the Academic Index to assess academic qualifications for athletic recruits. I believe Stanford uses it informally, though I’m not 100% certain. It basically includes SAT/ACT, SAT subject tests, and GPA to come up with a score out of a possible 240.
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index_calculator/
176 is the bare minimum cutoff for the Ivies, but most recruited athletes are much, much higher. A recent top tennis recruit at Stanford had an AI of around 195, and that was very low. 210-215 or above will generally remove any doubts that a potential recruit is not too much of an academic reach. People like @sherpa and @varska can guide you once you have some documented times.
The other thing to be aware of is that there are strict NCAA recruiting guidelines. I don’t know how they apply to international applicants, but for U.S. applicants coaches are not allowed to make contact (do more than say “hi”) to a potential recruit before July 1 AFTER their junior year. If you are a sophomore then you are a ways away from that. Those rules do not prohibit potential recruits from contacting coaches (writing, email, phone messages) to express interest in their school. You should familiarize yourself with these rules. Here’s a starting discussion:
If you are anywhere near as fast as you say and this is not a hoax then you have a very rare talent, and it should get you to Stanford and beyond. Good luck. If it is a hoax, then shame on me for being so gullible.
Thank you @renaissancedad! This isn’t a hoax…why would I spend my time falsifying a story.
I don’t know. Apparently it has been known to happen on CC. I would think people have better ways to spend their time.
Anyway, get some documented times and keep working on getting a solid AI, and then see where things stand. You have time.
Also if I get into the school for athletics, do I need to continue doing it for all four years? Because I don’t want to be an athlete…you never know, but right now I don’t.
If you are recruited, it will be with the u derstandi get that you are going to compete. A coach will be using h I 's pull to get you in, so it wouldn’t be good faith to get admitted and then not compete. Some athletes do drop out, especially if scholarship money is not an issue.
The Ivies do nit give athletic scholarships. Elite schools with top athletics like Stanford and Duke do. If you get an athletic scholarship and drop athletics you will like the scholarship, and may possibly be required to repay part or all of it.
Things to consider down the road. Right now, get things documented and in order. Also realize that if you are really that fast, an athletic recruit is by far your best chance of getting into a top US school.
@renaissancedad, I still think this would make a great book/movie. Maybe get Paul Hogan (is he still alive?) as the PE teacher, timing his students on a worn-out dirt oval. The gun goes off, OP rears back, startled by the noise. The other kids are 10 meters ahead of her - then she digs in, nostril flaring and saliva flying from her mouth (this part is all slow-mo), she overtakes the other kids one by one leaving them in a red cloud of dust. Hogan looks at his watch incredulously, “Crikey! 11.2! You sure your a Sheila?”
Even if it’s fiction, I think we have something here.
Lol wth. Plot twist, OP doesn’t want to be an athlete @varska
I hope this isn’t a hoax, but re post #21, I didn’t realize it was possible for a man (OP’s dad) to get cervical cancer . . . men don’t have a cervix, right?
True ^bluewater2015. But yeah I was a type of cancer I don’t know what though. It was triggered by HPV, men can be infected with HPV and it can trigger cancer, that’s why i typed cervical cancer but yeah it’s for women only oops
I thought the same thing!