My daughter’s friend was in the winter games in Beijing 
She did all of high school online (no choice because of her training schedule) and also graduated a year early. If I recall correctly, she competed in the Olympics following her early graduation. She took the following year off entirely and is applying for colleges right now. Olympic athlete is very much a hook for many selective colleges - former Olympians of this particular sport have typically ended up in Stanford, Yale, and other T20s…and frankly without many other really extraordinary accomplishments than Olympic athlete. That seems to be quite enough! So if your child makes it to the Olympics, they’ll likely do very well come college admissions time, whether they decide to graduate early or not.
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