<p>I would gladly reject someone as annoying as that Ohno character.</p>
<p>Harvard will look bad if it changes its decision. If it reconsiders Joey Cheeks, will it reconsider other thousands of talented applicants? I don’t have anything against Cheeks. It’s Harvard’s loss, and Cheeks doesn’t deserve to go to that school that didn’t want him in the first place.</p>
<p>If they indeed did indeed <em>reject</em> him, you have to wonder whether the admissions people at the highest level were fully aware of the decision.</p>
<p>Guess not. I can’t imagine what factor may have been so lacking in him. Huh.</p>
<p>If he was deferred, then he is now a shoo-in as long as his grades were above average (That’s 3.something at least, and apparently the SAT is OK). Ditto the rest of these places. But if he was rejected…ah, therein lies the problem.</p>
<p>Costas made it seem like he was flat-out rejected…and because of that, I have to say I was rather shocked and appalled when he asked the dean to reconsider the application…simply because it can’t ethically be done. Otherwise, as others have noted, all rejected SCEA applicants would have to be looked over again during regular admission…and I’m sure of all people, Joey Cheek would appreciate the level of fairness that would be inherent in that. After all, what if others have amazing things to add to their applications? Granted, I can’t think of anything right now…but we who aspire to Harvard surely can deal in abstractions.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my mother says, “They’ll do whatever they want.” Apparently she thinks the Harvard admissions committee doesn’t care about the argument above.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he was deferred. </p>
<p>Winning a gold medal does not make one worthy of admission to an ACADEMIC university. As I’ve said before, he could have scored 1100 and had a 3.2 in high school, which would be nearly a decade passed for him. He will graduate at age 30 or so, 8-10 years older than everybody else in the class.</p>
<p>So I hope Harvard rejects him and he chooses to go to Yale because he’s pretty much my hero. Anyone that’s going to raise awareness of Africa and the genocide in Darfur in the way he did by donating $25,000 is a hero in my book.</p>
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<p>That seems pretty clear that he was rejected SCEA. That’s ridiculously surprising though. With a 1400+, 20/300 class rank, and Olympic medal, how the hell could he have been rejected. There seems to be something fishy going on here.</p>
<p>He didn’t have an Olympic medal back in Dec…didn’t he just get one this past month?</p>
<p>Perhaps, as deferred students are encouraged to do, he should send in a follow-up letter, “advising the Admissions Office of his subsequent achievements.”</p>
<p>One more place to an actual deserving student.</p>
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<p>What? Since when are all gold medalists automatic admits? There were gold medals awarded in over 80 events in Turin. Should all those winners automatically get into any school? It takes more than top skating, skiing, snowboarding skills to qualify for admission to a good university.</p>
<p>“2,828 were deferred, 149 were rejected”</p>
<p>didn’t joey medal at salt lake? i think it was bronze ur something, but still a commendable feat, no?</p>
<p>they prolly rejected him b/c of his age. i mean a twenty-six year old mingling with 17/18 yr-olds?..</p>
<p>btw, apolo is cool!..'cept when he spits :)</p>
<p>I think Cheeks is a legacy. So for all you legacy olympians, the comeptition must be rough.</p>
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<p>There is something wrong with any sentence that reads, “[PERSON] wants to go to an Ivy League School.” There’s nothing wrong with wanting to go to Harvard, but it seems like he just wants the prestige factor of an Ivy League school. Like he wouldn’t go to a fantastic school like the University of Michigan because of its name. Like he doesn’t seriously care about his education and considers the title of his school to be some icing on top of the cake.</p>
<p>Would it really, really hurt to reconsider his application? After rejecting him already? Of course it would! Harvard can’t undermine their entire admissions process to make exception. What kind of precedent would that set? Pandering to the rich and famous? Fact: if Joey Cheek were not an olympic speedskater, nobody would be even talking about him.</p>
<p>GirlCalais said that, we don’t know if that’s quite how Cheeks himself feels.</p>
<p>It’s not a big deal, but for some reason it really ****es me off when people misspell his last name. It’s Cheek.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry :-\ Wasn’t paying much attention…</p>
<p>Was he really REJECTED? That would have been stupid of Harvard. Of course they knew the Olympics were coming up…this could have been an actual deferral (meaning put off the decision, as opposed to polite/conditional rejection as the majority of us are ;)).</p>
<p>i wish shaun white would come to harvard. flying tomato hits the yard. now thats a good time.</p>