Thanks everyone for your advice and thoughts, I ended up reaching out to both Harvard and Penn. I’m still waiting on a response from Harvard, but the Penn coach responded quickly. Unfortunately, I currently am not fast enough to walk on to the Penn team. I guess that was expected. I’m expecting a similar response from Harvard, or no response at all. I guess that I will just train hard this summer and see what happens. As hangNthere pointed out, guys can improve greatly in just one year. Hopefully that will be me and I will be reevaluated by the coaches. Either way I can still apply to the schools solely based on academic merit, and if I’m not accepted there I have quite a few LACs that I could probably attend and be a top swimmer for. I guess I just have to wait and see what happens.