Michelle Wie gets into Stanford

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<p>Its like the Olsen twins (estimated to be over a billion in worth) going to NYU......what the hell are they going to do differently with a degree that they would do without one...........nothing.</p>

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<p>Maybe she wants to LEARN something becides playing golf? Just a thought, DAM1727.</p>

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<p>Maybe her point is that she wants to get a good education. Having good golf skills or a lot of money does not diminish the value of that one bit.</p>

<p>And since when is college only about gaining job skills? If that were the case colleges wouldn't be permitted to offer all those majors such as Philosophy or Classics, etc. that do not lead to any particular job skills. Just plain jobs skills is what trade schools are for. Universities are a lot more than that.</p>

<p>And another "point" is that if Michelle Wie does in fact become really rich one day, she may look back fondly on her college days and choose to spend some of her millions endowing a professorship or scholarship at Stanford so that even more low income kids can attend and perhaps someday get good jobs.</p>

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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!

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<p>Jenny Thompson, who has won ten Olympic medals, attained her undergraduate degree from Stanford. She later went on to complete her medical degree at Columbia University and is interning at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Next year, she is supposedly going to be working at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital as an anesthesiologist .</p>

<p>Who knows what she might accomplish.</p>

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<p>parabella: "Maybe she wants to LEARN something becides playing golf? Just a thought"</p>

<p>Perhaps, but you dont need university to learn something you want to. Degrees are just pieces of paper that proves you know something about a subject, to eventually help you find a career in that field. (Thats why someone with no degree, no high school will not land a job that requires a degree or high school, even though they may know a lot).
If she wants to learn she can just as easily go to the library, buy books...etc.</p>

<p>corueur: "she may look back fondly on her college days and choose to spend some of her millions endowing a professorship or scholarship at Stanford so that even more low income kids can attend and perhaps someday get good jobs."</p>

<p>You dont need to go to a university to do that, you can simply donate.</p>

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<p>Jenny Thompson yes I agree she will do good in her career as a doctor, but she was already a undergrad student in biology (she wanted to do medicine) before she become an olympian (and hence a celebrity).</p>

<p>I'm talking about people that were celebrities first then decided to do their undergrads.</p>

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<p>Sure, but people are FAR more likely to donate to their own alma maters. Which I'm sure was in the back of Stanford's mind when they chose to admit her.</p>

<p>But to the general point, where does it say that rich people shouldn't be educated? Why should someome be doomed to a life of ignorance simply because they happen to be rich?</p>

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<p>Rich people shouldnt be doomed to a life of ignorance, if they love learning then there are more possibilties for them to do so without university.</p>

<p>I love learning, if I was rich I wouldnt need the credentials to prove something, I would simply learn it to know it.</p>

<p>I know someone who loved computers and in the 70's (with only high school) began working with them, eventually he held a position as LAN/Systems manager for amost 22 years. The company moved overseas, he stayed here, but he now cant get a job without a degree, even though he knows just as much and has just as much experience as anyone with a degree. So learning and knowledge are not the main points for university for most who end up going there.</p>

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<p>The number of people who become rich celebrities before they reach college age is what, 15? 50? Whatever the number, it's a small handful -- a small drop in the huge river of kids applying to college every year. </p>

<p>It's not a big enough problem to worry about.</p>

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<p>I'm giving 5:1 odds that MW does not complete her degree at Stanford in 4 years but decides sometime in that period to begin a full time career on the LPGA Tour. If she had been eligible to play collegiate golf, she may have. But her dream is to be the best female golfer in the world and sacrificing 4 years of full time competitive golf will seriously compromise that goal.</p>

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<p>Her dream is play the PGA Tour with the guys. And go to Stanford. Neither goal has changed in the last few years according to published reports and many interviews.</p>

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<p>A number of stars have stopped their successful careers for college--Brooke Shields, Jodi Foster, etc.</p>

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<p>parentofbear, I know that playing on the PGA Tour is her dream but it is less than a pipe dream and if you have listen closely, that is her current coach's opinion too. When she becomes eligible to play on the LPGA Tour next year I think that is where you will find her playing.</p>

<p>All this talk about playing the PGA Tour, playing in the Masters and qualifying for the Ryder Cup amply demonstrates her immaturity and the foolishness of her "handlers". Having been a golfer for almost 50 yrs, I have been alarmed at the way her game has digressed the past year, something which is probably as much mental as physical. She has become little more than a dancing bear in a carnival sideshow. The game of golf is littered with players who have mentally collapsed(Duval and Baker-Finch are two prime examples). Hopefull the same will not be said for MW.</p>

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<p>xiggi, thanks for that!! still gives me goosebumps. I had no idea what the reference was to, but of course the trombone player went to Stanford; He was in the band for cripes sake!! (I kept thinking it must be a band called "The Play"... you know, like "The Fray") I actually lived in Oakland back then and happened to be listening to the game while driving in my car.... nearly drove off the road!</p>

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<p>The analogy with Brooke Shields and Jodi Foster does not hold because one can put an acting career on hold for four years much easier than one can put a professional athletic career on hold.</p>

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<p>Dam[n]1727:</p>

<p>Have you ever thought (no, you haven't) that maybe people want to go to college because they simply want to be involved in an intellectual community? At what other time in our lives to we get to be primarily involved with thinking and learning while surrounded by others who have consciously chosen to do the same? That is the difference between going to a library and going to college. I have spent the past few years inhabiting my mind, the internet, the library, the world around me, etc. However, I also want to gather together in a group of like-minded people and talk it out. I want the structure of knowing I have a responsibility to learn particular things -- that it's no longer just on my own time. </p>

<p>(haha, my dad would be so proud if he knew I just typed that. You should've heard him when I told him about half a year ago that I didn't actually want to go to college. He's managed to fully change my mind.)</p>

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<p>I am pretty much 100% she is going to graduate.</p>

<p>If anyone didn't notice yet, she's Korean with a dad who is a PROFESSOR.</p>

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<p>Tiger Woods was there for two years, and we've seen him on campus from time to time in the last few years. Some athletes come back to school after their professional careers are over (Chad Hutchinson (MLB and NFL) and Jeff Austin (MLB) were both back on campus completing their degrees last spring; all the June-drafted juniors from the 2006 baseball draft were back fall quarter completing their degree requirements as well.) Stanford tends to generate a lot of goodwill and the desire for a Stanford degree is pretty strong even if professional athletics needs to come first (for obvious reasons related to the narrow time window in which one can compete before the biological clock ends one's career). </p>

<p>But, I really only have one thing to say:
BEAT CAL :D</p>

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<p>Isn't she already really rich????</p>

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<p>Can Michelle Wie play football?</p>

<p>Stanford certainly needs some help there.</p>