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The previous legend has not passed, and new ones have appeared.
In the 2022 Winter Olympics, let the frog princess Gu Ailing become the ceiling of the chicken baby.
In 2024, Hong Kong, China's Jiang Minxian won the gold medal and walked into our sights. In addition to being an Olympic champion, she holds a B.A. in International Politics from Stanford University, a LL.M. from Chinese min University, and a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Hong Kong Chinese.
In the international education circle, sports students have never been synonymous with poor students, on the contrary, there are not a few top athletes who are strong in sports and academics.
In recent years, as the admission situation in the United States has become more and more severe, more and more parents have paid attention to sports climbing.
Especially in the United States, Chinese parents have long been at the next level in sports chicken babies.
The "second generation of Chinese" figure of the United States team
According to statistics from the Pew Research Center, only 1.58 percent of the population is ethnic Chinese in United States. But at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the proportion of Chinese athletes on the United States team has exceeded the overall proportion of the Chinese population.
On the United States team, 10 athletes of Chinese descent will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
男子体操：汤建华 (Asher Hong）
Asher, from Texas, is a freshman at Stanford University, and his parents are both Chinese immigrants United States.
Asher was a member of the United States team at last year's World Gymnastics World Championships, and this year he represented Stanford University in the All-American Collegiate League as a freshman, winning five consecutive All-American Collegiate Gymnastics Team Championships for Stanford University.
Women's Gymnastics: Sunisa Lee ·
Originally from Minnesota, Sunisa Lee is a senior at Auburn University and has shown great talent for gymnastics from an early age. She made her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021, winning gold in the women's individual all-around.
Sunisa is a six-time United States women's national gymnastics team with six world championships and Olympic medals.
羽毛球男子单打：舒之颢 (Howard Shu)
Howard is from California, a graduate of UCLA to Chinese Taiwan immigrants.
Howard has represented the United States since 2016 and has been a leading figure in the men's singles field of United States badminton.
羽毛球女子双打：徐凯瑞和徐安妮（Kerry & Annie Xu）
Kerry and Annie are twins and the best badminton doubles partners. Their life experiences are almost identical, starting badminton training at an early age and studying together at the University of California, Berkeley.
The pair only resumed badminton training and competition last year, and then won the doubles title at the Pan American Games.
Women's Table Tennis: Rachel · Sung
Rachel Sung, also from California, is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 2022 and 2023, Rachel won the United States Open Senior Women's Doubles Championship for two consecutive years and finished second at the National Olympic Qualifiers in March.
Women's Table Tennis: Amy Wang
Originally from New Jersey, Amy is currently a junior at the University of California, Los Angeles, to Chinese parents who immigrated to the United States.
Father of a former professional table tennis player who has since worked as a table tennis coach, Amy has been training and achieving results in table tennis since he was a child, entering the United States national team at the age of 12.
女子乒乓球：张安（Lily Zhang）
Originally from California, Lily is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, the son of a professor of mathematics at Stanford and a mother who played for the Shaanxi provincial table tennis team.
Paris 2024 will be Lily's fourth appearance for United States, and she will pursue a math-related career after retiring.
女子排球：贾斯汀·王-奥兰特斯（Justine Wong-Orantes）
Originally from California, Justine is a graduate of the University of Nebraska to a Chinese-American mother and a Mexico-American father, both former volleyball players.
Justine was named to the United States national team in 2017 and won the United States women's volleyball team for the first time at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
女子高尔夫球：张斯洋 (Rose Zhang)
I believe everyone is no stranger to Zhang Siyang, she is from Irvine, California, and is a junior at Stanford University.
In 2020, Zhang Siyang won the National Women's Amateur Golf Championship, becoming the first Chinese-American player to win the championship in the 115-year history of the event.
Known as the "female version of Tiger · Woods," she is now a professional golfer and will represent the United States for the first time at Paris 2024.
Most of the Chinese athletes on the United States Olympic team are concentrated in California, mainly studying at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA.
California itself is home to a dense concentration of Chinese, and the Chinese are always at the forefront of the times.
The Chinese chicken baby has been involved in the Olympics
At the 2022 Winter Olympics, four of the eight figure skaters on Team United States were of Chinese descent, three of whom were from the Bay Area.
Just when domestic parents were in chicken math English, Bay Area kids were already rolling rugby, skating, and skiing.
They have Olympic medals in one hand and offers from prestigious schools in the other, and they are simply winners in life.
United States figure skater Karen Chen entered Cornell University; Vincent Zhou is currently a student at Brown University.
Figure skating men's singles gold medalist Nathan Chen, who is not in the Bay Area but is the ceiling of the United States figure skating team, was admitted to Yale University in 2017.
In the sports arena, Chinese Americans are frequently present, not only excellent in sports, but also very good academically.
Behind this phenomenon is actually a microcosm of the new generation of Chinese immigrant families and children's education.
Many Chinese immigrant families are educated in China, and they are usually willing to pay more for the education of their next generation, not only more money, but also time and energy.
After all, the majority of Chinese mothers, represented by mothers in the Bay Area of California, are a group of chicken babies in the education circle that can be ranked alongside Haidian mothers and Modu mothers.
Even if he verbally said that he was fleeing from the involution, in fact, he still didn't dare to relax too much overseas, and the fighting spirit of the "chicken baby" was always high.
Walking along South Deanza Avenue in the Bay Area's Silicon Valley neighborhood, it is as if you have the illusion that you have come to Haidian Huangzhuang in Beijing.
But grades are not absolute, and the application to universities in United States not only values learning, but also attaches great importance to the overall comprehensive quality ability, especially sports activities.
Therefore, the children of Chinese families are basically hexagonal warriors who can be literate and martial. I learned literature, I also learned STEM, I can play piano, violin, and figure skating golf.
Among the many activities, there is no more emphasis on sports.
According to the website, the sports in which Asian students have participated in the most recent years include: fencing, golf, swimming and diving, water polo, cross-country, and tennis.
After Gu Ailing won the gold medal in skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, skiing has also become a new direction for chicken babies.
Soon, some institutions set their sights on the wind and opened a ski training class specifically for children in the Bay Area, $1,000 an hour, and parents snatched all the places as soon as it was launched.
Many parents of chicken babies, if their children do not go skiing, they cannot find a common language in the parent group.
Chinese parents worked hard to roll up academics and sports, and even did not hesitate to roll their children to the Olympics, but the result was nothing more than to go to school.
Climbing the vine in sports is not a shortcut
In United States college admissions, excellent athletic results are a stepping stone to the door of a prestigious university.
According to a report by Harvard University, the overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 is only 3.41%, but the acceptance rate for sports special admissions is as high as 83%.
Not only is the acceptance rate high, but the proportion of sports special enrollment among Ivy League students is also very high.
According to statistics, among the Ivy League students in 2022, Dartmouth College and Princeton University accounted for as many as 20% of the students.
The University of Pennsylvania has the lowest percentage of students with sports specialties, accounting for 9%, and Cornell University accounting for 8%.
Among the other top universities, athletes from Stanford University make up 12 percent, MIT athletes make up 15 percent, and Caltech athletes make up 14 percent of athletes.
Athletic recruits need to pass the NCAA, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
NCAA共有三个级别：Division 1、Division 2、Division 3（简称D1、D2、D3）。
D1 is the highest level, and there are a total of 363 D1-level universities in NCAA, including the eight Ivy League schools, Stanford University, the University of Florida, and the University of California, Los Angeles, etc.
Different schools have different levels for different programs, and their application requirements are also different.
At the D1 level, for example, students are required to have 16 Core Courses, have at least completed Algebra 1 in Maths, and have a GPA of 2.3.
If you want to apply to an Ivy League school, then the SAT score must be 1450-1500 and the GPA is above 3.0, which is not easy.
Even if your athletic performance and performance are recognized by a college coach, you will not be admitted if you do not pass the academic grades.
It is worth mentioning that in terms of the acceptance rate of individual programs, the acceptance rate of sports climbing is not as high as imagined.
According to a 2020 golf admissions data, 168,480 men and 96,071 women competed in high school, with only 1.5 percent and 1.8 percent getting into D1 schools.
Only 2.8% of men and 4.1% of women are in D1 football. The lowest percentages are in men's football and women's tennis, which are below 1%.
As it turns out, sports climbing is not what we imagined to be a direct admission to a prestigious school, and it may be a harder road.
Because sports training not only consumes a lot of time and energy, but also requires children to ensure equally excellent academic performance.
Sport climbing is never a shortcut, but for children with a passion and talent for sports.
If you don't have a passion and interest in sports, you will undoubtedly push your child into the fire pit.
Everyone envies sports students and Olympic champions, but they can't see their dedication for ten years behind the scenes.
In fact, our children do not need to be cultivated according to the ceiling path of chicken babies like Gu Ailing, Chen Wei, and Jiang Minxin.
More importantly, neither miss their talents, nor overly involuted, and really help the child find the right path for his development.
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