<p>but isnt the whole point of separating canadians and domestics to evaluate them in different school system contexts?</p>
<p>got into berkeley:D</p>
<p>^sick man! Wondering though, did you get FA? Isn’t Berkeley a state UC school?</p>
<p>yeah, i didnt get any FA. so, i will prob turn the UCs down for ivies.</p>
<p>^did you apply for FA when you applied to the UCs? I was under the impression that if you apply for FA, you either get accepted with FA or rejected. Can you still get accepted, but with no FA or did they just not give you any FA even though you asked for some?</p>
<p>did any of you get interviews? if so, where in canada do you live and when did they take place?</p>
<p>no interviews, no supplements, nothing</p>
<p>i didnt even get an email from them until the decision</p>
<p>for American unis, you have to ASK for interviews… that is what I did for like 15 schools and its quite a long process… they email you a name of a person and then you figure out a place to meet etc.</p>
<p>I got interviews for I think the majority of the schools I applied to (which were ivies)</p>
<p>I was contacted first by the interviewers (except MIT where I arranged it). They took place at various times. I was contacted by Pton like 2 days after I applied and Harvard about a few days before the due date for interviewers to submit their forms. I’m in Toronto.</p>
<p>I got interviews with Princeton & Harvard and they both contacted me. UPENN contacted me as well but honestly it was such a hectic time that I couldn’t meet up, and since the interviewer stated it was completely optional, I decided against it.</p>
<p>if it’s optional, why do people say the interview plays a big role? not questioning you, but i’ve heard both sides of the story</p>
<p>@ the_pakalypse ya im an athlete… track and field to be precise</p>
<p>and @ viggy ram sorry for the late reply, but heres my stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 2090 (superscored)
GPA: 4.0 (not sure about the weighting process, but i have a 96% average if that helps)</p>
<p>EC:
- Run most successful Breakfast club in School board (providing free, nutritious breakfasts to all students who need it) – i didnt start this program, but i made it successful
- Tobacco awareness leader (presented to over 600 students on dangers of tobacco/how youth are targeted by the industry)
- 2 years of student council
- 4 years of prefect duties
- athletic council
- church volunteering
- track and field (2 time national champion)</p>
<p>thats about it…</p>
<p>i wrote my application essays on a teacher who had a huge impact on my life, and my other one on how i brought the Breakfast Club to be as successful as it is…</p>
<p>ive been doing track and field for 6 years now (since grade 7) and have been to 3 national championships (and won 2 of them)…</p>
<p>anything else you wanted to know @viggy ram?</p>
<p>and on the subject of interviews, i got one with UPenn (also a school recruiting me), but not one with yale…</p>
<p>i would have taken the one with yale if it was offered, but i was assured that they were a)optional and b)not an issue in your potential acceptance/rejection</p>
<p>and @kellogs sorry guy didnt mean to take one of your spots 
lol</p>
<p>hope you get in though! good luck!!! let me know what happens come thursday eh//</p>
<p>@thatguy100, yo man…what school district are you in? Also, when did you get in contact with the coaches to get recruited? Like, did they see you at an event, or did you contact them and send them your results and stuff and they decided that they wanted you on their team? </p>
<p>I play baseball, and my junior season hasn’t started yet so I can’t really send much. But I am recruitable as well and I want to know what the process was like and what you need to do. </p>
<p>Also, are you amazing at tracK? Like, go ahead and brag, i want to know how good someone needs to be to play a sport in the Ivy League. I hit .635 my freshman, gr.9, year in high school baseball and .560 last year with wood bats. But high school ball is a joke compared to travel, and this year we keep formal stats (our team does) for scouts and such. But I wanna know how good need to be (how good any athlete) needs to be to play a sport in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>@viggyram im in the DSBN, you?? btw, thats southern ontario. </p>
<p>annnnnd, alright, track and field… i dont like to brag too much, but heres the run down of my higher up performances:
-4- time OFSAA medallist (2 gold)
-3 time Canadian national medallist (2 gold)
-30 time provincial medallist (more than half gold)
-been throwing for 6 years
-hold over 15 records throughout my years
-currently ranked top 20 in the ivy league for shot put ALREADY (being a year younger than all ivy league competitors) – note, i have not competed in the ivy league, but i compared my PB to the rankings</p>
<p>umm, im gonna be honest and say i have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when you talk about baseball stats… i no nothing of baseball sorry…</p>
<p>as for recruiting, i emailed yale myself. i found the info over the internet for the track and field coaches, and i sent them the run down email like “this is me, i have this GPA, im really interested in your school and would love to continue chatting with you” (waaaay more formal than that, but you get the gist) </p>
<p>basically, i noticed (and they told me) that they continued the conversation because i told them that i was projected to graduate with a 4.0 GPA. it seemed that, even though i am competitive in my sport, Yale was interested in recruiting me <strong>from the get go</strong> because i was a competitive athlete with good marks…</p>
<p>so, if your stats make you an above average baseball player and you have good marks, then you should at least be able to open the door for recruiting… i cant speak for yale baseball, but they heavily recruited me cause they were actively seeking track and field athletes… </p>
<p>and, i emailed them at the beginning of november 2009, i was invited on a visit on november 16, then i applied, and got a likely letter in feb 20th 2010… and now acceptences come up officially on thursday so im just waiting for that</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>just a note, they told me that they found me, and i quote, “very late in the recruiting process” so, if i could do it over again, i would have emailed them just before my grade 12 year or right after the start of it… i kind of waited till the last minute because yale was actually not even on my radar to begin with (i wanted UVA and UPenn more)</p>
<p>^ok thanks for the info.Once I write the SAT and such, then I’ll send some schools emails with stats and info. on baseball + academics. Thanks for the insight.</p>
<p>And man, those are UNREAL accomplishments! You are so beast lol. I’m in the GECDSB…furthest south in Ontario. </p>
<p>Also, if can you be interested in more than one school? I mean, if a school sends you a likely letter, but a couple weeks later another schools send you a likely letter, can you reject the first school, or are you bound to that first school?</p>
<p>Is this recruitment process for Ivy Schools binding? Also, when you go to the school, say for some odd reason you don’t want to do track anymore…will they like kick you out of the school since you were initially an athletic recruit?</p>
<p>are you saying GECDSB as in the windsor school board??</p>
<p>and, in short, YES you can be interested in more than one school (i initially wanted UPenn, yale and UVA).</p>
<p>HOWEVER, i submitted for likely letter consideration AFTER i committed to yale (this was because the coach from yale is the one who submitted me). while there are ways to get a likely without coach support, they are EXTREEEEMELY rare (im talking 200-300 out of 26,000 here). so, if a coach submits you for likely consideration without you having committed to the school, great. but, if you say “yes, im committed” and you get a likely letter out of it, you are bound (not by law, simply by your word, which the ivies take as law).</p>
<p>now. the recruiting process is NEVER legally binding. the ivy league is not allowed to make athletes sign a form (which IS allowed in D1 schools, called “letters of committment”) so, technically, if i decided that i dont wanna do track any more on the second day of school, then i technically can quit, and they have no grounds to kick me out of school. however, this is one of most dispicable things you can do to an ivy league institution, and there are some quiet ways that the teams (as they all support each other) can make your life hell for being such a tool. <– not calling you a tool, just pointing out.</p>
<p>and, btw, what grade you in??</p>
<p>I’m in grade 11, and yea…i was wondering that because I want to go into medicine and i didn’t know if playing baseball would be too much. i’d want to play for sure, but if it becomes too much, then i was wondering if i had the option of quitting.
and yea GECDSB is greater essex county distict SB…and yea all windsor schools are in it, and the county schools around it as well.</p>
<p>ohh ok good deal ya i was askig cause i have a few friends down in windsor, tecumseh to be exact.</p>
<p>and, on the note of school obligations. yale (the only school i know for sure, but im sure all the others are) is VERY accomodating of athletics and academics. they told me that school is my number one priority – everyone told me that athletes, coaches, etc. </p>
<p>so, i really think that you can make it work. because the ivy league isnt known for its athletics as much as its acadmics, and they arent lookin to change that. did you get my PM? just message me back on that and i can answer any other questions you have lol</p>