Are Olympic medallists who have decent GPAs basically guaranteed admits?

[sakky]

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Really, Sakky, whoever these folks are, they need to just let it go, given that she graduated 20 years ago, ROFL.

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<p>Maybe so. But considering how George Bush’s admission to Yale and then HBS (as is Al Gore’s admission to Harvard) is still a matter of controversy, I don’t think any dispute over Shields is much different. </p>

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If I were to spend my time being outraged over “people who don’t deserve to go to the Ivies,” I think I’d be more outraged over those who were admitted because of influence AND didn’t do that well (e.g., GWB), rather than those who might have been admitted because of celebrity, but were up to the challenge.

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<p>But was she really up to the challenge? The fact is, we don’t know what Shield’s Princeton grades were. Maybe they were just as bad as Bush’s.</p>