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...swept its season-opening matches against Brown, Stanford, and Williams to bring its lifetime record against the teams to a collective 14-0. Despite graduating 2007 national champion Kyla Grigg ’07 and starting only freshmen and sophomores—including two walk-ons??on the nine-woman squad, the team showed confidence and poise on the way to victory. The Crimson began the season beset with injuries, with 2007 All-Ivy senior Supriya Balsekar out with a hip injury for at least two weeks, sophomore Charlene Neo out against Brown with a shin splint...
...varsity lightweight boat has included two walk-ons. Two walk-ons were on the second varsity eight last year as well.By the time freshman year ends, the best walk-ons have become largely indistinguishable from recruited rowers. Usually only 12 to 15 oarsmen–recruits and former walk-ons??return for the sophomore-year campaign. “It’s really the people who have rowed before who choose to stick with it,” Muri says. “Those who rowed before they came here just keep on rowing...
...Review accepts 14 first-years as “grade-ons??—those with the highest average score giving equal weight to grades and the writing sample. Twenty students are accepted solely on the basis of their writing scores, and seven to nine editors are accepted based on a student committee’s review of all their information, including grades, writing scores, race and any kind of disabilities—but not gender...
...ways to change the application process, which include reducing the maximum weight of grades to 30 percent for the 14 students selected based on grades and the writing sample. Other scenarios include selecting the top male and top female from each section and completely eliminating “grade-ons?? as a selection category...
While recruits are likely to be underqualified academically, “walk-ons?? would better reflect the academic level of the rest of the class, they argue...