I’m a rising senior coxswain that’s trying to get recruited. I’m currently in the process of a pre-read with Georgetown University. I’m worried about passing it especially because coxswains only get recruited with soft-support (a letter to admissions from the coach) so the pre-read result matters because I need to definitely be able to get in with the soft support.
Does anyone know what the GPA and sat score requirement might be? My current gpa is 4.13/5 and my sat score is 1440 but I retook it and I’m waiting on the score (I think I got 1440+).
Should I be worried about passing? Also does anyone know when pre-read results come back? Is it july 1st?
I don’t know anything about recruiting but I do know how to look up Georgetown Common Data set. 
The mid-50 SAT for Georgetown in the most recent common data set is 1390-1530 so I think you should be good there since you’re right in the middle of it. Do you know your approximate class rank? I know a lot of schools don’t rank but even so a lot of people have an approximate sense. If you are in the top 10 percent of your class I think you’re in good shape and probably also if you are in the top quarter. Again, not that I know anything about recruiting specifically but I would hope that if you are at least in the mid range of the non-recruits they normally accept then you’d be ok for at least a pre-read. I know there are people on here who know more about recruiting specifically and I’m sure they will weigh in. Good luck!
We don’t rank, but I know I’m in the upper half (top 50%). Thank you for your response!
The general answer to this question is “possibly.” I don’t know how to interpret your GPA (do you know your unweighted GPA) and don’t know anything about your school profile or rigor, so we don’t have a lot of data to go on, even if this was reasonably predictable by outsiders, which it isn’t.
Of schools that recruit athletes in general, Georgetown is on the high end of expectations around academic profile, including test scores, and the median SAT score for Georgetown in 2023-2024 was a 1480. I’m unsure with what weight “soft support” carries at Georgetown, and that is certainly a question you can ask the coach, in terms of numbers - both how many coxswains do you provide soft support for each year, and how many of those are generally admitted.
My honest answer is I hope you have other options as a recruited coxswain, if that’s important to you. There are schools that offer full support and whose processes are more predictable (you’re now past pre-read submittals for the schools that would do that, but there are other options).
Good luck - hoping for good news for you!
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Thank you for ur response! My school doesn’t do unweighted GPAs, so I assume they’d recalculate.
I don’t know if this matters at all but my school’s ranked highly nationally. I also have a sister at Georgetown and I’ve made connections with rowers on the team. I think I made at least 1480 on my most recent SAT. I’ve also talked to a rower on the team and she said all of the coxswain have been recruited on soft support and have gotten in with that support, but they are all academically rigorous students. She also said the coaches are very honest so I guess I’ll find out soon enough either way.
Please keep in mind that a passed preread is the first piece - it will be important to understand if you are THE cox that the coach is giving soft support to - with your application flagged at admissions. I don’t see the coach using a reading slot, if he feels you won’t pass. Does the current roster show the need for a freshman recruit or more? Also, if coxing in college is important to you, I would recommend expanding your list and reaching out to more coaches this month. It is nice that you have sibling at the school and have started to establish a report with the team.
There was another cox that posted here several months and thought they had soft support at an Ivy and did not gain admittance - you need to be proactive to make sure the coach is fully supporting you and nice to hear from other teammates that he is transparent.
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You can calculate this yourself, take core courses only, assign 4 pts for any A, 3 for Bs and so on, then divide by the number of course grades you added together. A more accurate class rank than top 50% would also help.
Have you submitted all your info to the coach for the pre-read? Do they ask for a school profile? Have any other coaches asked for a pre-read at this point?
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Thanks for posting again, because I think we’re getting a better sense of where you are in the process.
For a pre-read, the things in the middle don’t matter. In general, a pre-read is the process by which the admissions office tells the coach whether you’d be an admissible student - which is primarily about grades, rigor, and test scores. As @Mwfan1921 implied, you should have sent all of this to Georgetown already - the coach would have told you what to send - and depending on timing, they may or may not consider your new SAT score. In any case, none of us know how that’s going to work out for you, but we might be able to help on the other parts.
If you pass the pre-read (which the coach will tell you when they have the information and the opportunity - just because it might be done by 7/1 doesn’t mean you will hear by then), then following up with the coach more specifically on what “soft support” would really look like - how many coxswains are they soft supporting, and what’s the track record of those coxswains being admitted - are totally fair questions. The information from the rower on the team suffers from selection bias - they only know about the coxswains on the team, not the ones who aren’t.
Just to reiterate - if coxing in college is important to you, then we’re all hoping you’ve spoken to or will speak to other coaches at other teams. (Also not sure if you’re talking to women’s or men’s teams. If you were starting now, you’d be very late for women’s, somewhat late for men’s.)
Soft support means you will not hear about your admissions until either early decision or regular decision results come out - even if the pre-read goes well, that’s not any sort of guarantee - at that point, it’s much too late to be engaging other teams. If you’d choose Georgetown over coxing anywhere else, then great - but soft support is a risky bet if you might have other choices you’d like.
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I know for sure there are multiple spots for a coxswain this year as said by both a rower on the team and the coach when I went to meet them back in March. I definitely will open my roster, but it’s been hard to since I love Georgetown so much!! I think in terms of showing interest in the school I’ve been doing well, but I think you are right that the Coach won’t further the relationship or waste a slot on me if I don’t pass the pre-read.
I don’t think anyone noted this but coaches often offer more pre-reads than slots. Just because you pass the pre-read, doesn’t mean you will get support. Generally, coaches only have so much capital to spend in any given season. The coach will weigh your athletic ability with your academic record against other potential candidates. Pre-reads are generally red, yellow, green. If red, they likely won’t give you the time of day. Yellow, if you are a really strong athlete and they need your skill then they may expend capital to get you. If green, then you will likely make the cut to be considered for support. At this, point you would be assess against other viable candidates. You won’t likely know where you stand until mid-fall. I hope this helps.
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This is where you need to be careful. If the coach/team only offers soft support to coxswains, there is no “slot.” They’re writing a letter and having it added to your file: they may not write 20 of them, but there are no other real tradeoffs being made by the coach, and there are no commitments being made towards you. This is an advantage (of indeterminate value, unless you learn more) in comparison to other qualified students in the process - that’s all it is.
For the many other schools that offer “slots” to coxswains (or any other athlete), this is very different: if you are offered a slot (either after a pre-read or after some other process - this is school-dependent), then you’re essentially being offered admission at the school, minus exceptional circumstances.
If I’m overexplaining stuff you already know, I apologize, I’m just concerned for you. I’m glad you love Georgetown - I want them to love you back, or want you to find a place that will.
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If that is your real photo on your profile, I would suggest you remove it to something generic. Even though this site is called College Confidential, I would caution you to be careful with the level of identifying details you are posting - crew is a pretty small community and you will not be the only cox hoping to be recruited that will be reading this forum.
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Oh shoot. How do I delete this?
trying emailing admin@collegeconfidentail.com and i am cc’ing an admin here @CC_Sorin
Ideally the school name should be removed across posts.
Maybe another poster here has a way to help too ?