<p>hello, I'm a male sophomore, running track and cross country, and i am hoping to be recruited to run at either Dartmouth, Brown, or Yale. here's my general profile:
-4.0GPA going into junior year (took all honors courses fresh/soph years)
-in my highschool's highest band
-will be taking pre-calc and 3APs junior year(bio,eng,u.s.hist) and multiple APs senior year
-my grandfather attended Dartmouth (will this help in overall admissions?)
My strongest track events are the 1600m-4:38, and 800m-2:03. im hoping to greatly improve these times next year! any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
(as for cross country, i was injured sophomore year, so i will see how i do junior year) my last 5k was 17:40.</p>
<p>At this point your academic stats are closer to what you need than your athletic stats are. The Ivy League is Div. I, so your times have to be approaching Div I times before any of those schools will recruit you very hard.</p>
<p>So I’d say keep up the good work on your grades and study up to nail the SAT and your AP exams. And if your track times improve a lot next year, well so much the better. You may well have the athletic potential, so I don’t want to discourage you from trying. But you are not quite there yet. And if you don’t improve enough to get recruited perhaps you can still compete by getting admitted based on academics and then walking-on to join the team once you are there. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for the advice. do you think i could possibly be recruited with great academics, but slightly slower times? and would it work the other way around? say my SAT was not a desired score but my times were great. i have not taken the sat yet, but this is just an example. any other tips would be greatly appreciated!
thanks</p>
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<p>Not unless your times are close enough that the track coach puts in a good word for you to the admissions committee. There are tons of students with straight-A grades and excellent SATs who get rejected. They really have to want your athletic abilities for them to automatically take you over all those other great kids who also have top academic stats. Plus very few students are so exceptional that they actually get “recruited” for academic reasons - just a small handful across the whole country.</p>
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<p>Yes. This is the way it works for many, perhaps most, Ivy athletes. The school will give a little (but not a lot) on the academic side in order to get a top notch athlete for the varsity teams.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has an incredibly fast track team. And one of their runners got a 2400 on the SAT!</p>
<p>My son was accepted to a lot of schools (runner, excellent stats). Dartmouth was the only school that rejected him.</p>
<p>thanks, any additional tips, knowledge or feedback would be great!</p>
<p>and MaineLonghorn: was your son recruited?what were his stats etc?</p>
<p>if you want to be recruited for athletics, you need times over scores – the latter of which just needs to clear ~1800 at a minimum (for big-time D1 level recruits).</p>