<p>Ok, this is embarassing to say, but... What is a varsity letter? (heh, i know)</p>
<p>And... How do u get a varsity letter? Just through participating in varsity sports? (please don't slap me...:()</p>
<p>Join a sport, make the varsity team and you get a varsity letter, which is really just a giant cloth-like material, of a school letter or w/e you put on your school jacket. My school also awards what 'they' call a varsity letter to students with a 3.5 or higher for two semesters. The letters look slightly different though, compared to the sport letters.</p>
<p>The varsity letter is kind of like a patch you get if you're on a varsity sports team. The first season you're on a varsity sports team you get the varsity block letter. Any subsequent seasons you get various other patches.</p>
<p>You're supposed to put the varsity letter/patches on a varsity jacket (if you buy one -- they're like, $300-400 where I live).</p>
<p>Eh, that's how it is around here anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah pretty much what everybody else said. But at my school, if you're one of the managers for one of the varsity sports teams, you still get a varsity letter. </p>
<p>Ha so I have a varsity letter for being the guys' varsity soccer manager ;)</p>
<p>Soccer boys are hot.</p>
<p>At some schools you can also get varsity letters for being on a varsity debate or quiz bowl team.</p>
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<p>Oh I will definitely second that!</p>
<p>Oh I third that!</p>
<p>I fourth thattt :D</p>
<p>haha, if everybody would see my school's junior varsity football team...theyd get the laughs of their life.</p>
<p>the team is comprised of quite skinny, scrawny freshmen and sophomore guys who lost our homecoming football game...zero to 59.</p>
<p>Is a varsity letter a special achievement (is it worth putting on college applications)?</p>
<p>well at my school not everyone on a varsity team gets a varsity letter. it's not an automatic thing if you make the team. you have to score a certain number of points in a game or place 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a certain number of races, etc.</p>
<p>lol anisha..varsity fb team lost a homecoming game zero to 59? wow that must be some team there.</p>
<p>So if you get a varsity letter you can put "Letterman" next to all of your sports in college apps?</p>
<p>I put "three year varsity letter in Swimming" on my application somewhere. I don't remember which section though.</p>
<p>Swim boys are hot.</p>
<p>How bout XC boys, ladies? 
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<p>My school is a private Catholic jock school. Basketball’s won state for seven of the past eight years. Naturally, if you don’t get a letter in something–you’re seen as something of a failure.</p>
<p>At my HS, you get a letter for participating in X percentage of varsity sporting events in that given sport. For example, in track, you must compete at the varsity level for 80% of all track meets. The letter is useless other than to say that you’re among the best athletes at your school in that sport. It’s the proverbial “jock card.”</p>
<p>I was fortunate enough to letter in XC my freshman year. Boy did that **** the football players off. Haha</p>
<p>You are now all aware that this thread is 6 years old.</p>
<p>Threads come and go. As long as they can still generate a decent discussion, there’s no harm in reanimating them.</p>
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<p>Let the intellectual conversation ensue.</p>
<p>I counter your attempt to derail with a query:</p>
<p>Varsity letters for cheerleaders. Yes or no?</p>