<p>I know top speech team schools like Bradley, UT Austin, Western Kentucky, etc. recruit and pick students to compete in debate, speech, and interpretation (like acting) events, but I was wondering if any Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, or Princeton recruit as well? I'm currently competitive in Dramatic Interpretation, Poetry, Prose, and Duo, all of which are major events in the college circuit. I know HYP have debate teams, but do they also have speech/interpretation teams as well? And getting recruited for speech is a lot different (ergo, easier in a way) than being recruited for an instrument or sport... so let's not worry about qualifications now.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that no speech teams have full-time coaches that can nudge the admissions office. Ergo, no “recruitment” for speech. If your top schools, like Western Kentucky, do, then I’m wrong in that specific, but generally it’s either rare or non-existent. I think I can flat-out say that not one Ivy (or Stanford, etc.) has ever had a “recruited” speech person. The awards you get for being competitive will help you at HYP, whether or not they have speech teams (I don’t think so). For example, I have been (am not currently) national champion of Latin quizbowl. Did I get recruited? Of course not. There’s no college league, for one thing, but even if there were, Academic Teams Just Aren’t Like Sports That Way. However, I did get into both Ivies to which I applied, and my other ECs were barely blips on the map.</p>