ALso, its doubtful that she was unqualified to go to Dartmouth. Typically you have to be at least in the neighborhood of competitive as a student to get over the admissions hump.
There is a long list, it's probably the most discussed subject on the ladies side. Start with Kroger, Brasovan, Frazier, Baxter, Murphy, Collierr and Trotter.
Chmiel, Tuohy, Cook and Barnett, who all got off to solid starts in college, are more the exception than the rule.
I'm not sure who Collierr is. But everybody else on the list but Baxter and Trotter had at least some fame. I've discussed Brasovan. Kroger, Fraiser, and Murphy were D1 All Americans. But nobody else just jogged one year of JV cross country and hung up her flats. Some day the story would make a good book.
Trotter for sure had to have had one of the quickest falls from dominant national champion to nothing -- and I don't mean this as a personal knock on her, just the reality based on her life circumstances and choices. Destroyed a strong field at FLCC with a phenomenal time, and a year later she's at D3 Middlebury and maybe she ran a couple times her freshman year, nothing special, and that was it? Maybe Baxter's situation is similar, though she at least went to strong D1 program and seems to have attempted to fight through chronic injuries to compete at a top level.
And we are focusing just on high school national champs. There are hundreds of high school phenoms who won 4 state titles and qualified multiple times for national meets who did nothing after.
Ping was setting world records in junior high but peaked at about age 15. We forget about so many girls if they dropped off even before high school graduation.
Ping was setting world records in junior high but peaked at about age 15. We forget about so many girls if they dropped off even before high school graduation.
Briana Jackucewicz was the talk here a long time ago. Went to Harvard and I don't know if she ever ran. I hear she has a nice job working for Nike now.
Thousands of kids get rejected with near perfect and perfect test scores and GPAs while athletes get admitted with a 3.5 GPA and 30 ACT. I assume that she is in the latter category which means she isn't qualified except for being an athlete. Tens of thousands of kids in the US would be admitted ahead of the athlete.
Why would you make such a stupid statement? What do you know about her academics?
Forgot about that one. There are literally hundreds of girls who flamed out but some want to pretend that it isn't a thing.
Which could be (although parents sometimes coach these kids) an indictment of the US HS scene. No certification for HS coaches, no LTAD model with a mindset of getting the most out of kids with the 4 years that you have them mentality. Racing 2-3 times per week then trying to fit training in around the racing. Having said that there are any number of excellent coaches and programs, but they are the vast minority. Little wonder that this type of thing (burnout) happens. The excuse being that not everyone runs in College and hardly anyone becomes a Pro, so that justifies the lack of long-term development of athletes.
Thousands of kids get rejected with near perfect and perfect test scores and GPAs while athletes get admitted with a 3.5 GPA and 30 ACT. I assume that she is in the latter category which means she isn't qualified except for being an athlete. Tens of thousands of kids in the US would be admitted ahead of the athlete.
You have no idea what her scores are. I do know that there are plenty of athletes with adequate credentials and usually all being an athlete does is take them out of the random draw of 20,000 qualified kids. Admissions are very random among the qualified applicants and indeed many perfect applications are rejects. Schools will bend a little depending on how good of an athlete you are and how important that sport is at that Ivy. Could the coach have really went to bat for her? I suppose. But you have no idea.
You don't have an idea but I know what she isn't. She was not a national merit finalist which typically puts her below the 34-36 ACT range which means she had no chance to be admitted other than through athletics.
FFS... Unless you are family or close friends, you don't know squat for certain.
Delete this freaking thread. It should have been done days ago.
You are all complete jerks.
This person isn't a public figure and doesn't even compete anymore.
Thousands of kids get rejected with near perfect and perfect test scores and GPAs while athletes get admitted with a 3.5 GPA and 30 ACT. I assume that she is in the latter category which means she isn't qualified except for being an athlete. Tens of thousands of kids in the US would be admitted ahead of the athlete.
Why do you assume she was in the latter category? You have no idea what her test scores were. Furthermore, if the university is looking for a tuba player, that kid will stand out in admissions and have an edge. If a university has a geographical imbalance, the kid from the region needed to square it will get favored. Heard this at Duke and Yale during recruiting, that's the way it works folks. Athletes definitely get favored admissions but kids can get a leg up other ways too. It's not just top 20 schools either, Schools dont want to just have kids from one region, you want to go to Michigan, live in california, you will have an edge over the kid from Grand Rapids all else being equal. You want to go to an ivy league school, be a very good not great athlete, you have an edge. If your kid isn't doing anything exceptional, you aren't going to an exceptional school and that's ok too.
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