^ Women’s rowing is D1. We do know a young woman who was recruited by the coach her first week at MIT. She was a swimmer in high school so that helped in terms of fitness, but she wasn’t a recruited athlete during the admissions process. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time during orientation (it helped to be over 6’). One of her parents was actually against the idea because she didn’t want her daughter’s academic career derailed by “athletics.” Nevertheless, this gal rowed for four years - and then went on to get into several top PhD engineering programs. This unusual story still makes me smile.