Morgan Pressel really impressed me in the U.S. Women's Open. She is only 17 and she has been in the Open three times now. That is pretty impressive in itself, but this time she almost won. I would like to see her turn pro. But, I know she would do well if she went to college and stayed an amateur also. I guess the deciding factor for someone in her position is the money. She can't get the big bucks for winning if she isn't a pro so that is certainly an incentive.
She's very timid it seemed to me. Her grandfather and coach was a member at the Club I worked at in Boca Raton. Very protective of her, **** of a golfer, the men's group would always come in complaining how she took all their money. She definitely has a bright future ahead of her. I think she'll go to college before turning pro.
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She's very timid it seemed to me. Her grandfather and coach was a member at the Club I worked at in Boca Raton. Very protective of her, **** of a golfer, the men's group would always come in complaining how she took all their money. She definitely has a bright future ahead of her. I think she'll go to college before turning pro.
she didn't seem very timid on the golf course. maybe she's just an animal when it comes to golf, but by the looks of her(determination), I would guess that she will opt for the tour.
btw, what was censored? lol
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What a sparkplug! She is a great golfer with a competitors heart. In spite of all the press Michele Wie gets, Morgan Pressel is the top rated amateur. Morgan also has a 4.0 gpa, scored 790 on the math portion of her SATs and is going to Duke. I think we will see a lot more of her in the future.
What a sparkplug! She is a great golfer with a competitors heart. In spite of all the press Michele Wie gets, Morgan Pressel is the top rated amateur. Morgan also has a 4.0 gpa, scored 790 on the math portion of her SATs and is going to Duke. I think we will see a lot more of her in the future.
Yeah, they keyed in that she had a 790 math, but never mentioned the combined score, or the verbal. She had a 1350 combined, so she only scored a 560 on verbal....
She played a good golf match, but it's funny how they kept talking about her Math score, when the overall SAT was not all that impressive. If not for her golf game, (if she was a normal person), I don't think she would have gotten in to Duke....
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With her talent, and Michelle Wie...etc. They have the talent to get a full ride scholarship to any school they want. Trouble is, $$$ are knocking at their doors from endorsements. I was glad to see Tiger go to college and then turn pro. I think there is some maturity that is gained by doing so. But the money is hard to pass by.
Yeah, they keyed in that she had a 790 math, but never mentioned the combined score, or the verbal. She had a 1350 combined, so she only scored a 560 on verbal....
She lpayed a good golf match, but it's funny how they kept talking about her Math score, when the overall SAT was not all that impressive. If not for her golf game, (if she was a normal person), I don't think she would have gotten in to Duke....
Yeah, what a slacker. If young Ms. Pressel put more effort into scholastics instead of spending hours each day practicing and travelling to tournaments, she might have pulled up her slouching grades and posted a decent number on her SATs.
By any reasonable measure, a 4.0 GPA and 1350 SATs (93rd percentile SAT score) is very impressive. Colleges have always looked hard at extracurriculars, a student who is able to maintain a 4.0 GPA, score 1350 on their SATs and still have enough time to become the top ranked player is unusually impressive. Duke knows that Morgan Pressel is more than her board scores, the entire package is more impressive than a no nonsense bookworm who scores 1600 but has no balance to their lives, just school and study.
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Yeah, what a slacker. If young Ms. Pressel put more effort into scholastics instead of spending hours each day practicing and travelling to tournaments, she might have pulled up her slouching grades and posted a decent number on her SATs.
By any reasonable measure, a 4.0 GPA and 1350 SATs (93rd percentile SAT score) is very impressive. Colleges have always looked hard at extracurriculars, a student who is able to maintain a 4.0 GPA, score 1350 on their SATs and still have enough time to become the top ranked player is unusually impressive. Duke knows that Morgan Pressel is more than her board scores, the entire package is more impressive than a no nonsense bookworm who scores 1600 but has no balance to their lives, just school and study.
4.0 is a great achievement, and 1350 is a good score, but let's face it, there are many more that score much higher than that. Most people need 1500 for Duke to even consider them. As for me though, I would question why one was so much lower than the other
4.0 is a great achievement, and 1350 is a good score, but let's face it, there are many more that score much higher than that. Most people need 1500 for Duke to even consider them. As for me though, I would question why one was so much lower than the other
Duke's SAT score for the middle 50% of their students was 1410-1540
4.0 is a great achievement, and 1350 is a good score, but let's face it, there are many more that score much higher than that. Most people need 1500 for Duke to even consider them. As for me though, I would question why one was so much lower than the other
Totally dismissing anything other than academics and board scores just doesn't make sense. Colleges look at more than raw numbers for good reason. If you took a garden variety 4.0 GPA / 1500 SAT bookworm and forced them to devote as much time to an extracurricular as Morgan has devoted to golf that their numbers would drop below Duke's lofty admission standards.
The combination of what Morgan has achieved academically and in golf is far more impressive than better numbers accomplished by an individual who would implode if forced to walk in Morgan's shoes. She has done all of this while coping with the death of her mother in 2003.
Morgan Pressel is a brilliant overachiever capable of handling anything life throws her way, I feel pretty certain any school in this country would accept her in a heartbeat.
Morgan Pressel is a brilliant overachiever capable of handling anything life throws her way, I feel pretty certain any school in this country would accept her in a heartbeat.
I also suspect that her 1350 & 4.0 GPA compares quite favorably with Duke's other scholarship athletes. I know I wish I had her putter. Whoever in this thread said she looked timid... well I don't know what tournament they were watching. She looked pretty gutsy to me and she had something like 26 putts. That's pretty cold-blooded for a 17 year old in the hunt on Sunday in the biggest tournament of her life.
I'd trade off a few hundred points of my SAT score to be able to shoot par.
What has my SAT score done for me lately?
No kidding. I scored higher than her and all it did was get me into the local state school just like anyone else. When's the last time someone asked me about my SAT? I don't know. But I'd sure like to shoot par this weekend
June 29th, 2005, 01:06 PM
of a golfer, the men's group would always come in complaining how she took all their money. She definitely has a bright future ahead of her. I think she'll go to college before turning pro.
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