Winter Olympics - athletes at the top colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

That's just a fluke.

And those who win gold don't need ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

That's just a fluke.

And those who win gold don't need ivies.

But they might enjoy them. They also might genuinely need to be in environments where they are surrounded and encouraged by a multi-talented peer group that can appreciate them for more than just the gold medals. Not that Ivies are the only place to get that, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

This is a laughably ridiculous comment. There are Asian-American kids on most sports teams at top academic colleges who are nowhere near talented enough to compete for the Olympics, as is the case for 99% of their non Asian American teammates. All those schools have significant percentages of Asian American students with no demonstrated athletic ability as well.

[Anonymous]

I thought Asian-Americans were not athletic? Huh???

Must have Tiger Parents then???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

This is a laughably ridiculous comment. There are Asian-American kids on most sports teams at top academic colleges who are nowhere near talented enough to compete for the Olympics, as is the case for 99% of their non Asian American teammates. All those schools have significant percentages of Asian American students with no demonstrated athletic ability as well.

Must be so hard for colleges to keep denying Asian-Americans admissions, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

This is a laughably ridiculous comment. There are Asian-American kids on most sports teams at top academic colleges who are nowhere near talented enough to compete for the Olympics, as is the case for 99% of their non Asian American teammates. All those schools have significant percentages of Asian American students with no demonstrated athletic ability as well.

Must be so hard for colleges to keep denying Asian-Americans admissions, no?

At Pomona tour, we saw a freeze bee team on campus. Most kids at the most selective schools are nerds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Asian-Americans were not athletic? Huh???

Must have Tiger Parents then???

DCUM racists are coming out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

This is a laughably ridiculous comment. There are Asian-American kids on most sports teams at top academic colleges who are nowhere near talented enough to compete for the Olympics, as is the case for 99% of their non Asian American teammates. All those schools have significant percentages of Asian American students with no demonstrated athletic ability as well.

Must be so hard for colleges to keep denying Asian-Americans admissions, no?

Not sure what you mean. I’m not aware of any colleges that deny admission to Asian-Americans. My point is that you can be recruited as a great, but not phenomenal, Asian-American athlete with stats that meet whatever threshold the school sets. The PP seemed to be suggesting that if you are Asian-American, you have to have Olympic level skills, which is ludicrous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Asian-Americans were not athletic? Huh???

Must have Tiger Parents then???

PP needs to return to that thread on PP’s kids heading to the trade school. We all need waiters/waitresses, trash collectors, bus drivers, housekeepers...

[Anonymous]

CU Boulder representing at the Olympics!

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/01/31/buffs-beijing-olympics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Asian-Americans were not athletic? Huh???

Must have Tiger Parents then???

Pure racism.

It's like saying if a kid turns out to be an Olympic-level sexual predator, he must've had Jewish parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of them are also Asian-Americans. This is the standard that Asian-Americans have to bear.

This is a laughably ridiculous comment. There are Asian-American kids on most sports teams at top academic colleges who are nowhere near talented enough to compete for the Olympics, as is the case for 99% of their non Asian American teammates. All those schools have significant percentages of Asian American students with no demonstrated athletic ability as well.

Must be so hard for colleges to keep denying Asian-Americans admissions, no?

Not sure what you mean. I’m not aware of any colleges that deny admission to Asian-Americans. My point is that you can be recruited as a great, but not phenomenal, Asian-American athlete with stats that meet whatever threshold the school sets. The PP seemed to be suggesting that if you are Asian-American, you have to have Olympic level skills, which is ludicrous.

Asians have a tougher time getting into Ivies. Newsweek reported on it. In another thread, someone said I was dumb to “think” this and my friend who told me about it was also dumb.

NP