<p>Son is a AA male right around 1300 SAT and 3.8 GPA. </p>
<p>He is a varsity track athelete and his PR (131) from his junior year is equal to the 15th place discus throw from the Heptagonal games last year. Should he just fill out his intrest to participate in track on his common app profile or should he fill out the sheet on the school website?</p>
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<p>He knows he’s a Looooooonooooooog shot but since he’s going to submit just curious if he should put on one both or neither?</p>
<p>DTdad:</p>
<p>He certainly should list his interest in track. He should also contact the track coach.</p>
<p>He should not fill out more than one application. But beware that Harvard has a supplement to the Common Application. So your S should make sure he fills out both. It does not really matter if he lists his interests in both the Common App and the Supplement, but don’t fill out both the online and the paper version of the same thing. It will get the admissions office confused.</p>
<p>you know that they use a heavier disc in college right?
but if your son is seriously interested in harvard, fill out the online questionnaire. even if harvard isn’t interested in him, they’ll give him a call. it would have been better if you would have done this in the summer. coaches are probably pretty busy this time of year w/ the indoor season approaching. i filled out mine in the summer and got a call about 2-3 weeks later. if you have anymore questions just PM me.</p>
<p>DTDad, if by the sheet on the school website you mean the one on their athletics page, I can tell you that for all the colleges my daughter was interested in, including Harvard, filling out the online form was a complete waste of time - as far as I can tell, the coaches never look at it. My daughter only got interest by contacting the coaches personally at some of the colleges she was interested in, if they had not already contacted her. (This was different from token89’s experience, so I offer it for what it is worth - perhaps it is sport-dependent - at any rate, I would not rely on it as the sole means of getting the coach’s attention.)</p>
<p>Filling out the common app athletic interest won’t help with admissions, or get the coach’s notice. Unless the coach is recruiting that person, admissions doesn’t take it into account for decisions. So he should contact the coach, and if there is interest there, it will be a huge hook for admissions. If not, no harm done.</p>
<p>what sport was your daughter interested in? because i never called the track coaches. only an email and i filled out the online questionnaire.</p>
<p>Token,</p>
<p>No I didn’t know anything about the weight of the disc. To be candid he never thought he would be good enough for a D1 school’s team so it wasn’t top of mind. He had resigned himself to intermural sports in college until someone posted the link to the results of the games. He’s grown quite a bit in the last year so I would bet he will improve quite a bit. Thank you for the offer of information, I will pass it along to him. </p>
<p>Thanks again for the advice it really isn’t a Harvard issue as much as a “Oh, I could compete with those guys” issue.</p>
<p>yeah i was in the same situation. i had a good meet at the end of last season and i realized my times would be competitive at heps. from there, i just looked at schools where i thought i would have the best shot at running and had the most interest in (ruled out cornell/princeton cuz their hurdlers are amazing and brown/dartmouth because i don’t like the location). can’t beat a harvard education so i went to the website and filled out the questionnaire.
just do it. it won’t hurt.</p>