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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thanks to those who offered constructive comments.

I would like to add that my child has a good gpa and has a specific major in mind that will reduce the pool of schools quite a bit. We are not using rowing as a vehicle to cheat our way through admissions.[/quote]

Parent of an athlete in a different sport. The recruitment process is not cheating your way through admissions. To be recruitable in any sport takes an immense level of talent and hard work, and your child has accomplished that while maintaining grades in the recruitable range for whatever school they attend. If your child does end up rowing in college, people will repeat this nonsense to you over and over again, as though students cannot be both smart and athletic, and as if being recruited means the student isn’t an academic fit for the school. Don’t entertain that idea by implying anyone is cheating others out of a spot in college.

For the process, your child can contact the coaches now, so start emailing them with erg times, grades, etc, fill out the recruiting questionnaires on the websites. The coaches are allowed to contact your child about camps. Lots of these will be mass emails, but they can invite you personally as well. They can’t talk about recruiting yet as a sophomore, but the camps still give the athlete and coaches a chance to evaluate each other. You can go to a handful of those and then be ready to get on the phone on the junior year communication date, hopefully with a few favorites in mind since your child will already have visited schools and met coaches.
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+1 The old trope of the "dumb jock" is taking a long time to die.  Any NCAA university now has minimum GPA standards and graduation rates for their teams. In the vast majority of sports, that means coaches won't consider recruiting players that don't meet the schools academic standards. Sure, it does still happen but its a lot rarer than it was even 10 years ago. Plus, the pool of smart students is much larger than it was 10 years ago as well. In our DD's sport every single player on her club team has a 3.8+ GPA at strong academic HS. At travel tournaments its not unusual to see every player studying in between games/at the hotel at night.

The one real difference is the coach in an athletic program can usually either a) get admissions to review and admit you before the standard admissions timeframe -- a process that is required by the NCAA and their letter of intent program or b) do a pre-read with admissions to tell you whether you have a good chance of admission when the admission window opens.  In the latter case using athletics to differentiate yourself is no different than using other avenues like great standardized test scores (and standardized test classes), essay consultants, or even tutors to make sure your DCs grades are good.[/quote]

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