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This article has updates on 3 U.S. skaters' college plans: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...en-glide-into-ivy-leagues-after-gap-year.aspx
Karen Chen:
Vincent Zhou:
Gabriella Izzo:
I didn't feel like putting "Ivy League" or Vincent's and Karen's names in this thread title.
Karen Chen:
As a pre-med student majoring in human ecology, the Cornell freshman will have a heavy course load this fall in Ithaca, New York. Like many elite athletes, Chen has been homeschooled for much of her childhood. She has not step foot in a traditional classroom since the fifth grade, so she's looking forward to learning amongst peers again.
Chen hopes to find the balance between skating and school to stick it out for four straight years at the Big Red. "The connections and friends I make with classmates won't just take a semester. [I'd] leave and return to a completely different environment," she says. "I didn't want to go to college with other kids that are like four years younger than me, even though I look young. It'd just feel different."
Vincent Zhou:
"Brown was generous enough to offer me two gap years with an extra semester on top of that, so I only have to do this one semester and then I get to defer until after the 2022 Olympics," he elaborates. "[I've] been out of high school for two years and if I continue to wait until after 2022, then I'll have been out for five or six years and the top colleges are unlikely to find that attractive. My standardized test scores expire after this year."
... A short distance from Boston, Zhou will also spend some time training with Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson of the Mitchell Johansson Method.
Gabriella Izzo:
ETA:Another one of their [MJM] students, Izzo, has a seat on hold for her at Harvard University. She deferred her admission until next year to concentrate on skating, take a variety of courses to hone in on what she'd like to major in, volunteer at a local hospital and dedicate time to her term paper editing business.
I didn't feel like putting "Ivy League" or Vincent's and Karen's names in this thread title.
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