Crew recruit at a top college

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What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

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Ask your coach. Certain schools have very tall teams and are known for having strict height cut offs (Stanford, Harvard and a few others).

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Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?

No at all.

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

This is like every kids from NCS crew the past 15 yrs. Also mit isn’t D1, but I can think of multiple kids sent there from ncs crew.

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

This is like every kids from NCS crew the past 15 yrs. Also mit isn’t D1, but I can think of multiple kids sent there from ncs crew.

MIT is D1 for crew.

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

This is like every kids from NCS crew the past 15 yrs. Also mit isn’t D1, but I can think of multiple kids sent there from ncs crew.

MIT is D1 for crew.

Sorry - my mistake!

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

A girl who just graduated with DD was recruited to a D1 rowing program without ever having been on the water. I do think she had some training on an erg, though. I didn't dig for specifics, but she's a heck of a hockey player and has got that long and strong build that rowing seems to favor.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?

No at all.

Try 6'5"!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?

No at all.

DP, but curious, for lightweight, what would the height need to be for a boy or a girl? I assume lower than heavyweight.

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Ivy recruiting has tightened up significantly in recent years. You really need to be tall, lean and have the right types of muscle fibers (strong but not bulky) that respond well to an erg. For women's lightweight running it's often champion long distance runners who turn out to be excellent ergers out-of-the-gate. Jackson Reed has had two of them in recent years---each a very top runner (think best in DC) who then trying rowing and turned out to be a top rower---one now at Harvard, one to Stanford (both on lightweight teams).

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Anonymous wrote:What does it take in addition to ERG time and winning races? For top 10 colleges, are there rough guidelines for grades, SAT/ACT cutoff? How about height? For boys or girls. TIA

For girls, next to nothing. I know a girl from our HS who was not very athletic at all. Was cut from other team sports. But rowed crew. She's super tall, which I understand helps, but that's it. She won no awards or anything like that. Just rowed at a mediocre level. And she's very smart. But it got her into at TIPPY TOP D1 program (think, Ivy, MIT). The only other kids I know who got in to this school, and other similar schools, were also crew. Their parents plainly stated that they gamed this to make it happen and push them over the edge in admissions (among applicants who are all smart). Good for them, I guess.

If the kid is good enough at crew to be recruited, is it really gaming the system any more than any other sports recruit is gaming the system? This kid found a sport they were good at and presumably worked hard at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?

No at all.

DP, but curious, for lightweight, what would the height need to be for a boy or a girl? I assume lower than heavyweight.

Lightweight for women is max weight 130 and generally max height 5'8".
These sound generous but it's not easy to be super strong and under these parameters.

[Anonymous]

Much easier for a girl to be recruited for crew.