I have not followed the Olympics at all. Googled Nathan Chen's family and HOLY MOLY...this is an amazing and accompalished family. One word - MERIT

https://stylecaster.com/nathan-chen-parents/

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the commercial where Nathan Chen was talking about skating and playing the piano? He was also amazing at that! So accomplished. And he’s studying Data Science at Yale. Wow.

And he has great hair!

And handsome... I bet he has an intact and functional family.

I would love to see his college essays!!

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the commercial where Nathan Chen was talking about skating and playing the piano? He was also amazing at that! So accomplished. And he’s studying Data Science at Yale. Wow.

And he has great hair!

And handsome... I bet he has an intact and functional family.

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

I'm not sure what the original point of this post was, but why are people assuming that these athletes only got into top schools because of sports? They are exceptional, disciplined human beings, which is why they are at the top of their sport and worthy of admission to top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the commercial where Nathan Chen was talking about skating and playing the piano? He was also amazing at that! So accomplished. And he’s studying Data Science at Yale. Wow.

And he has great hair!

Reminds me of how Chloe Kim sings and was on masked singer and she was good…in fact, the judges kept guessing she was a singer (someone guessed Grimes).

Anonymous wrote:Karen Chen is a junior at Cornell.

Karen is pre-med track at Cornell, which is really amazing considering the pressure of that at Cornell!

Anonymous wrote:OP here again. I am sure that they had the academic qualifications too. I was just pointing out that this shows the competition that your DD or DS is up against -- world class athletes.

What a stupid take. Your DC is not competing against unicorns. They are competing against tens of thousands of kids just like them.

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else see the commercial where Nathan Chen was talking about skating and playing the piano? He was also amazing at that! So accomplished. And he’s studying Data Science at Yale. Wow.

And he has great hair!

NCS senior that competed in the Paralympics is heading to Stanford next year.

Did anyone else see the commercial where Nathan Chen was talking about skating and playing the piano? He was also amazing at that! So accomplished. And he’s studying Data Science at Yale. Wow.

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Nathan Chen -- Yale

Chloe Kim -- Princeton

Elaine Gu - Stanford

So that's one way to get into the top colleges -- be amazing at a sport and qualify for the Olympics!

This is one way for an Asian to get into HYPS - contend for/win an Olympic medal. No one is going to complain about their being introverted grinds.

At their level, they don't need HYPS.

Remember Alicia Keys who was signed by Columbia Records at 16? At the same time, she enrolled at Columbia University. Because of time commitment, she was forced to choose She never looked back. Same with Tiger at Stanford.

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Nathan Chen -- Yale

Chloe Kim -- Princeton

Elaine Gu - Stanford

So that's one way to get into the top colleges -- be amazing at a sport and qualify for the Olympics!

This is one way for an Asian to get into HYPS - contend for/win an Olympic medal. No one is going to complain about their being introverted grinds.

https://dartmouthsports.com/news/2022/1/24/skiing-six-from-dartmouth-named-to-2022-winter-olympic-team-220124.aspx

Dartmouth sent six skiers to the US olympic team

and even Columbia, the most urban ivy, sent a skier to the 2022 games...

https://www.college.columbia.edu/news/olivia-giaccio-cc-24-races-beijing

Anonymous wrote:Canadian women’s skier at Middlebury.

Also a Brazilian skier.