On Sept. 18, Newbury Park High School further established their name as a nationally-ranked team at the Woodbridge Cross Country Invitational. Woodbridge is the first official meet of the year and also the largest cross count...
As for freekiprop2, althought your post was directed to the poster "2018 Grad", your lack of intelligence and reading comprehension might be smart enough to get you into a school like Kentucky or a decent Community College, but not Standford.
Okay, I accept that this was just a typo, but it gave me a nice chuckle anyway.
More generally: Lighten up, Francis. Stanford is an outstanding university, but not the best choice for everyone. (Every year some people are admitted and turn it down, because *for them* another college is a better fit.) Seems like these boys took the process seriously and decided that Stanford is the best choice *for them*. I wish them well.
I just went through a bunch of posts that questioned the Youngs getting into Stanford because if not for their running they wouldn't have been admitted. Then I thought, "hmm, what what these folks have said if they opted instead for NAU?" "Crap school, bad choice, what will they do after running?" To these posters it's all lose-lose for Leo and Lex. If I was either of them and someone confronted me with some variation of 'you really didn't deserve to be admitted to Stanford' my reply would be "Cry more."
You aren't making sense. We are saying that they made the smart decision by using their talent to get into a better school which will result in a better job. Congrats to them. NAU would have been a poorer decision because both are great running programs but Stanford is a way better school.
Got to UO. Run pro until your 35. Work for Nike. Realistically if any of these guys plan on chasing Olympic dreams the Stanford grad with no work experience outside of professional runner and the nau grad look the same 13 years post graduation.
do you think grant fisher has career waiting for him outside of running (I know he has impressive academic credentials). but not sure if those will be very meaningful a decade more after not practicing them.
the Stanford degree only matters for those that don’t make it as a runner. That probably won’t be the young’s (although they have increased their odds of failing to go pro dramatically by choosing stanfraud.)
Grant Fisher is actively working on his masters right now. I'm confident he will have a very successful career after he stops running. I'm actually worried it could pull him away from running too soon if he has a rocky year or two. The dude can easily make 6 figures elsewhere.
This is this is true. If your a white middle class college educated person, professional runner is not a good career choice. There are so many easier ways to make better money. But if you are a poor black farmer in Kenya being a professional runner is the only way to make a better living. Hence the difference in motivation and results between the US and Kenya.
Check out who still will be eligible in XC 2024: Ky Robinson Lex/Leo Young Charles Hicks and Evan Burke (neither competed in 2019) Didonato The Toppers
Sure if take out running entirely. Because then you're taking away 15-20 hours a week of involvement with significant demonstrated leadership, passion, and initiative. But if they still have all that just as 16:00 guys instead of 13:40, so not going "because" of running, they'd still have a chance. Trust me, not everyone at schools of this caliber has crazy impossible accomplishments in high school.
Yep, in the end several of you are merely repeating what I already posted. They aren't getting in without their running and that's a fact. Now you continue to regurgitate it over and over and it goes back to my original post. Unless you are Katie Couric's daughter or Rob Lowe's son, you aren't getting in.
Being a 4.0 in High School isn't enough as that does not tell the whole story, not even close. Being in a tough STEM program, nailing all of your classes, having great ACT results, etc...still doesn't guarantee you acceptance into Stanford. But you can have less qualifications than that if you are "connected" OR do something really well, let's say like running for instance;)
As for freekiprop2, althought your post was directed to the poster "2018 Grad", your lack of intelligence and reading comprehension might be smart enough to get you into a school like Kentucky or a decent Community College, but not Standford.
I’m not agreeing with you. Read what I wrote again. You said they wouldn’t succeed there and that they didn’t have the “grades” to get in. You added the part about their “running accolades”, i.e. good enough to be recruited, being the only reason they’d be accepted after someone called you out. Which I still disagree with. Obviously it helped massively, but it would be possible for them to have been accepted as 16:00 (or slower) guys as i said, just a far slimmer chance.
I don’t need a lecture on the admissions process, I’m well aware. But alas, I am far too stupid to see your true intellect. I merely attend north mercer county tech
Man, are you guys all career counselors? Believe it, or not, the twins are not the first people to accept an athletic scholarship from Stanford. What matters is they will be running at Stanford next fall and will be part of a great distance running program.
A Stanford education is not about just a better job. Maybe that is possible, but it is not the reason to go to Stanford. If I went to Univ of Illinois (my home state) and got a 3.8 in accounting (something realistic for me), I would have had no shortage of outstanding jobs. Now what I did after the first job would have been entirely up to me and sound choices I may or may have not made. Illinois is a very fine school, but wasn't my cup of tea. I did go to a nearly similar school to Stanford that gave athletic scholarships. Again, it wasn't about getting a job, but being in a competitive and interesting environment. For a very poor kid, I learned to compete academically. To level set, a school like NAU wouldn't have been for me, but certainly most all of the Big Ten back then would have done very well by me. It is about fit and what type of challenges one wants to take on. It is so much more challenging today because the value proposition behind college is just so difficult - the prices for college don't correlate to outcomes unless one has wealthy parents.
My daughter was in the cardio department at the hospital. Faculty position. When I visited her I recognized that Stanford is a very difficult place to turn down if admitted. Certainly an impressive experience, and opting to attend for anyone is hardly controversial. School is what you make of it.