<p>I am not sure why this interesting. Of course she got into Stanford, and given that she doesn't seem to want to do things the conventional way, she might even graduate. Who cares?</p>
<p>LOL Benny1.</p>
<p>Also, let's not overlook the obvious; celebrity. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if the golf coach invited her to speak to the team on occasion.</p>
<p>Why is it so ... unbelievable that she might simply be a good candidate for Stanford? Why does anyone assume she is NOT a very good student attending a highly competitive high school? Why does anyone assume she did not tally great scores on the SAT? </p>
<p>Most schools in the country would recognize young entrepeneurs and students involved in community assistance. Well, how many 17 years old do earn 20 million dollars a year and give more than one million to charity? </p>
<p>From an outsider's viewpoint, it seems that this young person has been able to juggle extremely challenging activities under relentless scrutiny and questioning. Last Friday, Michelle Wie the celebrity was a simple teenager finding out about her dream. It should not be that hard to accept that she is human.</p>
<p>Tiger Woods went to Stanford for a year. I'm sure that this was before he went pro. I think that after 1 year, he did go pro.</p>
<p>I'm sure that Stanford is also seeing her as a developmental admit...she herself (not her parents) will be able to give MUCHO back to the Stanford community now and in the future. </p>
<p>It will be interesting to see if she finishes...or how long it takes her to finish.</p>
<p>Xiggi is right on. Why do you people assume she's not an otherwise qualified candidate for Stanford? Have you seen her GPA or SAT/ACT scores? Clearly she has outstanding ECs.</p>
<p>This is a topic of discussion because Michelle Wie is a celebrity. The same reason it was reported as a news story, and the same reason that Stanford violated her privacy and announced that she had been accepted (rather than declining to comment). I think it is great that she is following her dream to attend Stanford. I am quite confident she is fully qualified academically to attend. Why else would SHE want to attend? Sure, she is fullfilling a dream, but she is going to college primarily for academic reasons! I salute her!! She isn't attending on a golf scholarship. She is not attending so that she can get a job with stock options at Google (I think). She wants to go to school. Probably the easiest admit for the committee since Chelsea Clinton. :)</p>
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<p>I don't see any indication in the news story that Stanford made the announcement. All the information in the story about the admission came from Wie.</p>
<p>This is off-topic but related: My son learned to play golf while a student at Stanford and he loves it, although he is still not very good at it. Stanford offers beginning and intermediate golf (maybe advanced, too?) as an activity course. They have a driving range, and playing on the actual golf course is very inexpensive for students. The suite where he lived as a senior was right near the driving range!</p>
<p>Maybe they had permission. It's a minor point. BTW, who the heck is the
trombone player from "The Play" ???</p>
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<p>A Stanford University spokeswoman today confirmed that professional golf prodigy Michelle Wie has been accepted to Stanford for the fall 2007 semester under the university's Single Choice-Early Action program.</p>
<p>Stanford spokeswoman Elaine Ray wrote in an e-mail that the university's Office of Undergraduate Admissions has not yet received Wie's written acceptance of the offer. Wie has until May 1 to decide. However, Wie, 17, has told reporters in Florida, where she is working on her golf swing with coach David Ledbetter, that she is planning on attending the alma mater of Tiger Woods, Chelsea Clinton and the trombone player from "The Play.''
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<p>Motherof2, Maybe Michelle can get a work study job as a golf instructor! (That was a joke, y'all)</p>
<p>Think Gary Tyrrell and a famous football play?</p>
<p>Oh well, let's cut the mystery ... here it is:</p>
<p>Im close enough to LPGA folks to have heard the rumors about grades and test scores. They are in range for non-athletes and on the high side for recruited athletes from my area. She said her dream was to attend Stanford when she was 15. Why not attend Stanford play a summer schedule with a few tournaments during the year like any other college golfer? Dont give up on your dreams or make a decision based solely on money. To this day Oaklands General Manager Billy Beane regrets not attending Stanford and signing with the Mets out of high school. </p>
<p>As far as college goes Michelle isnt much different than Morgan Pressel who had test scores and grades to attend Duke this fall and chose to play the LPGA Tour instead.</p>
<p>Tiger woods was at Stanford for one year. AMong others, John McEnroe went there also for one year. When it comes to sports, Stanford has its desires to win and "lesser" standards for those who can help the athletic program, no different than any other Division 1 school.</p>
<p>If she completes her sophomore year there I'll be shocked.</p>
<p>My son was recruited to play baseball at Stanford a few years ago. Again, it was like any other D-1 school, the whole talk was about sports, winning, winning and winning. NO discussion was ever held about academics except impressing upon him that he needed to stay eligible and would not be allowed to red-shirt.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm just having a bit of fun with this thread. Good for her. I'm sure she can do the work. I have no issue with her acceptance. If she goes to school, she'll have to go somewhere right?</p>
<p>For me the thread is just sort of a backhanded way of kinda poking fun at ourselves whose kids are all stressed out over cost, grades, test scores, EFC, etc. and how wrapped up we become in the process. And she obviously doesn't need to be. Same with Clinton, Woods, Sarah Hughes at Yale, and on and on and on. Sigh.......lol.</p>
<p>Why did she decide to go to Stanford anyway? </p>
<p>I mean, she's a celebrity, she's rich so why go? Usually kids end up going to university to prepare for a career or to do research and development.</p>
<p>What celebrity that has gone to university has contributed anything to research, what new thing have they come up with? None to my knowledge.
You dont see celebrities that graduated that ended up winning Nobels for research or finding/creating something completely break-through!</p>
<p>So its a waste of time for her to go, and plus she has pushed someone else out who should be there that may have contributed something wonderful and useful to the world.</p>
<p>I guess you would have denied a certain golfer the right to earn his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Harvard University, and go on to law school at Emory University. </p>
<p>Good for Bobby Jones to have lived in a different era.</p>
<p>Hmmmmmmm...Dami - where to start? </p>
<p>I started a deep, resonating response, but then erased it, figuring you wouldn't get it anyway.</p>
<p>Maybe she likes to learn. Maybe she wants to have as 'typical' a life as possible when she's 18, and that means going to college. Maybe she doesn't want to spend her whole life golfing, and once she's done golfing, she wants something to do. There are professors and teachers who don't need to work, because they made their millions somehow, but they enjoy their jobs and want to give back to the community.</p>
<p>You don't hear of many people at all winning Nobels for research or finding/creating something completely break-through.</p>
<p>At least one actress, Danica McKellar, proved something significant.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005211/bio%5B/url%5D">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005211/bio</a></p>
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<p>Oh please. The vast, VAST majority of graduates from top universities, which consists almost entirely of non-celebrities, never publish any research whatsoever, much less win a Nobel prize. Nor do they accomplish anything "wonderful and useful to the world" beyond perhaps raising, feeding, and educating their own families. Was it a waste of time for all of them to go to these colleges?</p>
<p>"Oh please. The vast, VAST majority of graduates from top universities, which consists almost entirely of non-celebrities, never publish any research whatsoever, much less win a Nobel prize. Nor do they accomplish anything "wonderful and useful to the world" beyond perhaps raising, feeding, and educating their own families. Was it a waste of time for all of them to go to these colleges?"</p>
<p>No it wasnt a waste because without it they wouldnt get jobs and hence no/low money (most come from low-income/mid-income families, so school is their only escape from that).</p>
<p>She already has money (more than you can normally spend) so whats her point?</p>