<p>Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? How'd they reject this Olympics gold medalist</p>
<p>he'd been out of school for 10 yrs... i guess he didnt have good grades and stuff back then?</p>
<p>I guess he didn't have a good enough hook... :)</p>
<p>I think being away from school for 10 years (if that's true) speaks for itself. He probably just wasn't keen on studying.</p>
<p>10 years... maybe the adcoms thought he forgot everything he learned... or he was just after the school cause of its prestige...</p>
<p>10 years....</p>
<p>This is what he was quoted as saying in a USATOday.com story :
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" I'm excited to get back into scholastics and see what I can do, Cheek says. I didn't work hard enough (in high school), so now I get a second chance.'</p>
<p>If his h.s. record was bad and he hadn't done anything intellectual since then to prove that he has the discipline to do well academically (Clearly, his SAT scores prove he has the intelligence to do so), that could be why he was rejected, if indeed he was rejected.</p>
<p>Being out of school for 10 years while prepping for the Olympics could have made him a very attractive candidate -- if he also had some clear evidence of strong intellectual interests and motivation.</p>
<p>Even people prepping for the Olympics can take some college classes. Debbie Thomas was premed at Stanford when she went to the Olympics for figure skating. She won a bronze back in, I think, the 1980s. She's now a doctor.
Since the USAToday.com story that I saw said he was rejected "early entrance," I keep wondering whether he was deferred, not rejected. It could be that the sports writers got the story wrong or that even Cheek misspoke himself as we sometimes see students doing here on CC after they are deferred.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Sarah Hughes was an EA accept.</p>
<p>Sigh. And now she's at Yale.</p>
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<p>Not all Olympic gold medalists get to go to elite schools. Some don't go by choice, others don't go because they couldn't get in.</p>
<p>For example, remember the 'Magnificent 7' team of US female gymnasts that won the team Gold in the Atlanta Games of 1996? As far as I know, only 2 of them went on to an elite school (Amy Chow went to Stanford, Kerri Strug started at UCLA and transferred to Stanford). Of the others that I know, Dominique Dawes went to UMaryland, Dominique Moceanu and Jaycie Phelps didn't go to college at all, Shannon Miller went to, I think the University of Oklahoma, Amanda Borden went to Arizona State. </p>
<p>While I obviously can't prove that those 3 who didn't go to Stanford did so because they didn't get in, I suspect that at least one of them did so because they didn't get in. After all, I'm quite certain that after winning the Gold Medal, they could have easily won gymnastics scholarships to go to Stanford for free.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Sigh. And now she's at Yale.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Did she go back? Sarah Hughes dropped out of Yale after one year. I hadn't heard she had returned, but of course that is quite possible.</p>
<p>Sarah Hughes didn't drop out of Yale--"she took the 2004-2005 year off to skate professionally with the Smuckers Stars on Ice tour," according to Wikipedia. So now she should be back at Yale.</p>
<p>/shrug. She's on facebook; that's all I know.</p>
<p>lucky her.</p>
<p>from today's nyt</p>
<p>"Six days ago, Hughes, the first alternate for the United States team, learned she would be competing in Turin in the place of Kwan, who tearfully bowed out of the Olympics with a groin injury last Sunday. Hughes is the younger sister of Sarah Hughes, who won a surprise gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake Games. Sarah Hughes is expected to take time off from her classes at Yale University to go to Turin to watch her sister skate."</p>