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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll Start:
Private School
Track and Field (Field)

UW 3.9; SAT 1480 (one try); 11AP Classes (Bio/Calc/Phys/Chem, Eng (2), History (2), Stats, AA History, Geo) all 4s and 5s.  Remainder were all honors classes.

Well liked by teachers, great recommendation letters.

State Champion for their event, Top Ten Nationally for their event

Admitted to non-HYP Ivy within the last 3 years (SAT was submitted at request of coach).
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Is there a split in field vs track?

Ie would your kid have gotten hyp if they were a top 10 in the nation track athlete?

Top 10 nationally ranked in an objective measured thing with those grades and test scores should be hyp no? [/quote]
OP here

I can't speak to other sports, but can give you my experience.  Recruiting is weird, and idiosyncratic.  The T/F team gets a certain number of recruiting slots and that is then divided up by the head coach to the coach for each event.  From what we experienced there are 12 to 15 slots for the entire team, and then each coach will get 1 or 2 slots.  Some events will get 0 slots if they have, say already have 6 good athletes in pole vault that are sophomores, juniors and seniors.  Then if you have a multi-event athlete recruit they may get preference over your kid even if your kid is better at the individual event.  For Example, if you have one recruit who is top 20 nationally at both triple jump and long jump but your kid is top 10 at only long jump they may not be a top recruit.

I understand from friends that hockey goalies are another position where this happens.  If Harvard happened to get two really good recruits for goalie one year, the next year maybe they will get zero slots.

That being said, my child was recruited by two of the HYP schools and had conversations with the coaches.  However, to make this even more laughable for some on this board, we also have legacy at the school they attend and that was where my child felt the most connection.  They always wanted to go to this school since they were a little kid so once they found out they could be guaranteed admission they just stopped looking.

Also, a clarification.  They were top 10 nationally among JUNIORS in high school, which was the recruiting cohort.  They would go on to be top 10 nationally for the entire high-school cohort their senior year.

Finally, the poster who said 1100 SAT I believe is lying.  Every coach we talked to said 700 math and 700 English was the target for SAT.
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