<p>What are the requirements for joining the Women's Rowing Team at Stanford?
Are transfer students able to be recruited?
Am I able to do a walk on?</p>
<p>What are reasonable times for a lightweight rower 500m, 1K, and 2K?
If I want to be the coxswain, how do I prove that I am qualified before attending?</p>
<p>How do I get noticed by the coaches?
Should I have my coach write me a recommendation?</p>
<p>I sculled and coxswained for one semester at D1 school, but did not compete due to personal reasons. Also, I am transferring as a sophomore-but taking off a semester first for personal reasons.</p>
<p>Female
5' 1"
104lbs</p>
<p>High School GPA: 4.8 - Valedictorian, Varsity Tennis Captain, etc.
Never rowed or coxswained until in college.
Was asked to do it upon arrival.
Loved it; best decision ever. </p>
<p>Am starting to train again and pulled a 2K in 8:02 as of this morning.
Is this a reasonable time? Is it possible to compete as a coxswain and in sculling? Should I be doing any USRowing competitions? </p>
<p>In short, I want to become a top coxswain, lead my team to win nation, and make it to the olympics. But I'm still discovering what I like about rowing and am open to new things. Any advice about programs to attend or coaches to reach out to is much appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>When I was at Stanford, I walked on to the Men’s crew team without any rowing experience. After Winter break of my 1st year, I talked to the freshman crew coach about joining the team. He didn’t commit to anything, but let me practice with the team on the rowing ergs (indoor rowing machine). My scores on the machine were better than about half of the freshman team since I worked out regularly and was in excellent cardiovascular shape, so he let me walk on and go the regular early morning practices at the Redwood City boathouse. I expect it would have been easier to join at the start of the freshmen year, rather than in the middle, and it would have more difficult after the freshman year… but possible. </p>
<p>I vaguely recall booths for the women’s crew team encouraging people to join, implying they also had a similar policy. The booths had signs that listed a minimum height or “tough enough to make the difference.” I’d expect it be difficult to be anything other than coxswain with your height & weight, even on the lightweight team.</p>
<p>Okay. Just to clarify, I am going to have to get in on pure academics?
Do you know who I should/can call about special circumstances?
My brother is an alumni - should I ask him to contact someone?</p>
<p>P.s. My concern is that I had a horrible experience at the college I am at currently. This experience affected how I performed in school and how I was treated in school.
Though internal and legal proceedings are still on-going, it seems that the decisions will confirm my claims. More so, I bring this up because my performance was drastically impacted and that is difficult to explain without a discussion.</p>
<p>Also, thanks for the website. I am in touch with a club coach who will help me with everything there. I was also planning to reach out independently to Yaz or Nate, but I’m not sure if I should. Would it be more appropriate to have my dean or previous rowing coach contact one of them?</p>
<p>If you’re not officially recruited, then you’re going to be competing based on “pure academics” as well as subjective factors like recommendations, essays, ECs, etc. You should definitely discuss any special circumstances in your application (in the additional information section or in an essay), especially if those circumstances affected your performance and/or gave you a unique outlook. One of the things which often tips transfer applicants into the “accept” pile is a special circumstance which will contribute to the diversity of the class.</p>
<p>Okay. I have finally gathered my materials for being recruited. I am in the process of being recruited by USC and am then going to reach out to Stanford once I fully grasp the concept via the USC process.</p>
<p>USC has also accepted me based on academics. I’m still not sure about Stanford; I’m waiting to reach out for one more month.</p>
<p>My stats:
4.871, 2nd in class of +850, varsity tennis all four years - captain for two, allstate violinist, 2nd at state champ in 5A tennis, national environmentalist lobbying
SAT: 1980
or readjusted 2010
speak 4 languages fluently</p>
<p>I’m planning to retake the SAT soon and am expecting a lot higher…like ~2250+. I am confident after I retake my SATs, but what are my chances before re-taking the SAT exam? Do you think Stanford would accept me on those merits?</p>
<p>The goal is to get a full-ride at USC or Stanford for coxswaining.</p>
<p>“Do you think Stanford would accept me on those merits?”</p>
<p>If you were a recruited athlete, then I would say, “Absolutely!” But since you aren’t being recruited by Stanford, you’re in a pool with all the other applicants. Therefore, it’s impossible to tell whether you’ll be accepted without seeing your entire application and comparing it to the rest of the pool. Stanford itself says this:</p>
<p>“We are often asked to evaluate an applicant’s chances of admission based on certain criteria. To make such a judgment without reading an entire application is impossible.”</p>
<p>The way I did it with USC was just reaching out to the coach during a visit and now I’m going back for the recruit visits. </p>
<p>Should I reach out to Yaz or Nate and tell them that I’m interested in being recruited as a coxswain? Is there someone I should contact? Should I ask my club coach to reach out for me?</p>
<p>I will have my final coxswain recording to send them by this Friday. I was also planning to tell them that I’ll be at the Head of the American at the end of October and ask them to scout/recruit me there.</p>