2023 women's D1 rowing recruiting advice

coffeeat3
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:36:58 +0000

When my daughter had early unofficial visits and/or continued coach contact over email - she was told about money. Money was never brought up from an Ivy program. In all cases, she never asked.

The amount of merit and sport $ varied a lot - with one school saying “if she worked out” some $ would come only jr and sr year, another program said it would grow each year (guessing performance based) and programs with merit were open with a estimated merit number and still wishy washy about sport $.

I think they could all tell we were full pay - only guessing, but if she was looking beyond the highest ranked programs -there may have been more money to sway her ???

Regarding letter of intent - it is mainly verbal except for Ivy and a few others that offer a likely letter. It becomes official on national signing day - but again more show - in my opinion.

PS: I don’t know of anyone that used a rowing counselor. Your college counselor and your own research should be able to help make a balanced list both with and without crew.