<p>I just read from Yahoo Sports that Harvard rejected Joey Cheek. The olympic gold medalist for some skiing event. Now normally I would say, good for harvard, you're not just accepting him cuz he's an athlete, but this joey guy seems really awesome. He's donating all of the bonus of $25,000 he recieves from the US olympic committee for recieving gold to an organization that helps children in war-torn areas. Now that is an amazing spirit, and he truly deserves to go to harvard. If he couldn't get in, there is not hope for any of us.
P.S. Joey got a perfect score in reading, and scored just north of 1400 (not bad for an athlete)</p>
<p>"Not bad for an athlete".</p>
<p>If they think that he wouldn't be able to keep up with the intellectual rigor of his peers at Harvard, they have every right to reject him.</p>
<p>Based on his SAT scores, he prolly would.</p>
<p>No, they are not on crack.</p>
<p>Harvard in every way things that they accept people out of more than just an SAT score, which I think they should. Rivers Cuomo didn't even send an SAT score, and he got accepted. i doubt it that he was accepted for his intellectual superiority over others. A perfect score in reading is harder to get than a perfect in math.</p>
<p>Okay, let's see... if he wasn't rejected for SAT scores (which were high enough), and he wasn't rejected for lack of EC's (I think the olympics count), then why was he rejected?</p>
<p>I agree, I think he deserves it.</p>
<p>The only thing I can think of is that maybe he showed very little interest in the college, i.e. through his essays or interview or poor application. Who knows...</p>
<p>He is really admirable! How can an athlete donate all his bonus to somewhere? That is his money, and that is really the money he fighted for.
He is so awesome.</p>
<p>and quite the looker. maybe his interviewer was jus jellus.</p>
<p>i thought the same thing. I don't know that many people in general who would give up all the money they worked so hard for! Olympic athletes aren't rich. In fact many of them live very modest lives, just barely scraping by in order to pay top bucks training for the olympics. harvard should have accepted him on character alone!</p>
<p>His sats are way too low... even though he is an olympic athlete, his sats proves that he would not be able to compete with kids from harvard... keep in mind students at harvard are one of the most smartest students in the world, these are people with over 100 averages and over 750 in sat2s, and they are one of kind... from him it would be very difficult to work and think at their level... so what they did might seem "they are on crack" but it was a good decision</p>
<p>uh, I know a recruited athlete from my school going to harvard with a 1300, so I don't think harvard would be out of his league (no pun intended)</p>
<p>In the "How they got into Harvard book" one of the profiles was a baseball player who had 620's on both portions of the SAT's, he got in! I don't think 1400's is too low for harvard with his extra stats. Furthermore, he probably will still get in now with the gold medal : D!!!</p>
<p>Btw, how can you say the stats are way tooo low. Athletes are not known for their academic rigor. They are in the ivies not to think but to rank up trophies.</p>
<p>Depends on what college.... if your talking about ivies... they look for Scholar Athlete who perform well at school and sports... Ivys need to be sure that their athlete is capable of handling the academic pressure with sports... they need to know that their athlete can mantain a good academic grades because in these schools, student performance reflect the ranking of the schools and sometimes in the end its just THE LUCK OF THE DRAW</p>
<p>He is obviously qualified to go to Harvard. I think he was probably rejected because Harvard wants more attention. Everyone will be thinking "Wow, Harvard rejected Joey Cheek and he had great SATs and is an Olympic Athlete! Harvard must have people that are even more amazing than that." It just increases the mysterious allure of Harvard.</p>
<p>bestmiler1, i think your attitude is horrible. first of all, sats do not provide a reliable portrayal of someone's intelligence. second of all, he got a 1400 with a perfect verbal! there is little difference between a 1400 and a 1500, that's a good score, probably at the 25% at Harvard, and someone who has trained that hard and is that good at a sport (try the best in the world as of now) deserves to get it with those very good academic qualifications even though do not standout amongst harvard students</p>
<p>Maybe they just didn't want him? I find it amazing how most of you guys judge him simply by oe thing; his SAT score.</p>
<p>Maybe they felt witht he Olympics and as a pro athlete, he would not dedicate enough time for his education, or he wasn't serious enough. There are all sorts of factors; look past the 1400. It is meaningless by itself.</p>
<p>Yeah, but they wouldn't reject a qualified candidate just to "increase their allure". They'd want such candidates so they could say "Look at all the famous people who went here".</p>
<p>His SATs are definitely not low, and they do not directly correlate with his ability to keep up. Must've been something else. Maybe really bad essays that made him look uninterested in them? I don't know.</p>
<p>Wait, did he go to a regular school, home school, what? Gpa, etc.?? I agree with newyorker that the Olympics may take his time away from studies.</p>