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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.[/quote]

You’re nuts. I don’t know anything about figure skating but getting any girl to d1 level of hockey, let alone ivy, means sending them to boarding school, or commuting to Philly or Pittsburgh for hockey, starting when there 14. The only local girl within recent memory that did it  without leaving played coed (boys) aa through 16u…[/quote]

They aren't technically nuts...it was kind of a stupid statement, but factually true.  Figure skating isn't an NCAA sport, so there is no recruitment for it.  Sure, Nathan Chen got into Yale because he was an Olympic champion...Chloe Kim was accepted to Princeton (with admittedly middling SAT scores according to her) because she was an Olympic champion snowboarder (and then she promptly dropped out after 1 year)...but there is no Princeton Varsity snowboarding team.

Hockey is an NCAA sport and the Ivy schools that have a team actively recruit players...as they do for all their NCAA sports.[/quote]

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