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<p>I’m going to have to disagree with you, elcrew. The reject pile at HYPS is littered with 2300+ kids with great ECs. If a coach won’t support your ap, your chances are the same as everyone else - slim.</p>
<p>Of course everyone has a slim chance–the admit rate for those schools is 8%. What I should have said is that the score falls under the usual range for acceptance to those schools. Bottom line is a coach isn’t going to recruit someone with an “ok” erg score and +2300 SAT. He/she will tell the athlete that if they can get accepted without any support then they can join as a walk on.</p>
<p>More to the point, a coach isn’t going to recruit someone with an “ok” erg score, period. And if it’s a hot recruit, you can be damn sure they’ll get support even with a 2300+ SAT. Coaches don’t roll the dice with admissions with their top recruits.</p>
<p>Beach - that sounds about right. D met with a Top 5 women’s rowing program coach a week or so ago and the coach told us that they start looking at rowers at sub 7:50 (which I too found amazing). Now, that doesn’t mean that’s scholarship time, or even a guarantee admissions spot – just a “start looking” number.</p>