Recruitment

High School Seniors This section is for high school seniors (who are either: planning to apply, already have applied, or accepted students). While it is not possible to participate in the recruitment process as a senior, we still would love to have you on campus to meet the team and see what Penn Sailing is like! Our team takes walk-on sailors, and there is no experience requirement, so we'd love to get you involved. Please contact Coach Isaac Clark (ihclark@upenn.edu) with your sailing experience (if any), high school, any majors of interest, and your current application status (applying/applied/accepted). Please follow the instructions below to set up a campus visit with the team, and see Penn Sailing first hand! High School Senior Year (Anytime, Ideally Before Mid-April): Reach out to Coach Clark, who will put you in touch with our student recruitment chairs. Together with the recruitment chair, you’ll set up a visit day(s) to campus. High School Senior Year (Visit Date of Your Choosing): On your visit day (optional overnight), you will spend time with various team members doing a variety of activities. You’ll arrive on campus, receive a tour from a team member 1-on-1, who’ll answer whatever questions you have, go to classes of interest to you, have lunch with Coach Clark, before heading to practice and seeing first hand what an average day looks like on the water. If doing an overnight, you will either arrive the evening before your planned visit date, have dinner with your host/team, and then spend the night in the college dorm, and do your visit the next day. Alternatively, you can stay the night after your date, then leave the next morning. If you have an official Penn event (information session, campus tour etc) booked during your potential visit date, please let our recruitment chair know, and we will plan around that. Of note is that our season runs from late August through the end of October in the fall, and then late February through May in the spring. We encourage you to come during our in season dates, as you will get the full ‘day in the life’ of a Penn Sailor, including practice. That said, if these dates do not work for you, we absolutely are able to still have you on campus, during which you will do all of the aforementioned activities, except practice. Specifically for seniors who have already been accepted: The University hosts ‘Quaker Days’ programming during a Thursday-Saturday period of April, after RD results have come out. It is definitely possible to participate in both ‘Quaker Days’ and a Sailing campus visit. This can be convenient if you are already coming to campus and want to see general university life and the sailing team.