The Varsity race at the Annual Regatta is the pinnacle of schoolboy rowing in my area, encompassing a group of schools that produce some of the fastest schoolboy rowing crews in the country. It was first contested in the 1874 and has run every year since, other than during the Second World War, usually attracting around 15,000 spectators. After a lean period my school has recently been experiencing a patch of good form, placing in the top 3 in four of the last...

I started sailing when I was about 5 years old. I’d get nervous about going on the water if it was even slightly windy, which with hindsight wasn’t a great quality for a sailor to have. Nonetheless, some of the old hands of the sailing club would talk me into going on the water, and at the end of the day I would come back in happy and smiling. As I developed as a sailor I started traveling with...

My interview at Harvard was after 24 hours of flying when jet lag meant I thought it was 3am....

I had a recommendation from a coach so that meant that I was much more...

By reaching out to the Harvard rowing coach I was able to get supported in my application, as well as the coach helping me with writing the application itself. In addition to this, the coach invited me on an Official Visit...

I chose to apply to Harvard, and to strongly consider Yale and Princeton,...

I really enjoyed a course called Natural Disasters. The content was very interesting, looking at a...