<p>Assuredly, while it isn’t uncommon to see olympiad medalists at Yale or Princeton or Harvard, I guarantee you students of that sort of level wind up all over the place. And many, many, many HYP students don’t have such academic awards of that precise level.</p>
<p>As for the OP - there could be specific reasons, but the thing is it doesn’t surprise me. What schools are looking for seems to grow less and less clear over time, which is a trend I do not support, but some might be OK with.</p>