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

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? [b]This kid found a sport they were good at and presumably worked hard at it.[/b] [/quote]

Therein is the issue, though. She really didn't. She had zero accolades to speak of as a result. [b]The bar for female crew is much lower than other sports.[/b] This is well known and they took advantage of that. Fine. My kid was not gearing for the school this kid was accepted to and recruited for. And we don't hate the player, but hate the game. That said, it WAS easier to manipulate the kid's acceptance knowing this. The parents don't deny it.[/quote]

The bar is lower in that it's not like soccer or lacrosse which basically require that you started playing by age 6 if you want to play in college. 
Rowing for girls (or boys) is sort of like football is for boys---you can start in 9th grade and if you're athletic you can be a recruit by 11th grade.

That said, the girls who are recruited for rowing are super athletic.  The only exception is those who are 6'2" or similar.  They can catch a break.
But the rest of the recruits are very, very athletic. I have a daughter who is a life-long soccer player and runner and she started rowing freshman year and she's really terrible on the erg.  There is one girl (out of 15 or so) on her team who is a pheomenol erger and she is a super athlete.  [/quote]

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