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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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