Nathan Chen

RainMaker said:

anyone know where i can find the nbc version of nathan chen fs

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sheetz said:

If you're not in the US or have a VPN it's here
https://youtu.be/_D4fZqUjYac

Otherwise I think it will be broadcast on NBC this Saturday so they will probably upload it after that.

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sheetz said:

Long interview in Russian. He talks about his training, programs, 4A. The Elton John program was supposed to be for an Ice Dance team. He also says he's spoken to his advisors and the dean about taking academic leave before the Olympics and believes it will not be a problem.
https://rsport.ria.ru/20191024/1560152208.html

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ribbit said:

I have no idea how many courses Nathan is currently taking or planning to take. But any Yale undergraduate has to enroll in at least three credits per semester, and remain enrolled in at least two of them for the entire semester. Moreover, a student must make steady progress toward the requirement of 36 credits for graduation by earning a minimum number of credits by the end of each semester. At the end of each of the first four semesters, students must have earned another four credits--that is, a student has to have earned four credits at the end of the first semester, eight at the end of the second, and so on. (The last four semesters require another five credits per term, not four.) The only ways around this would be to get ahead in the summer by taking a summer course, or to petition for special permission to make up a deficit by taking an extra course in the following semester or the following summer. So Nathan, in his sophomore (second) year, will have had to take at least four credits in each semester last year, and has to take at least four credits each semester of this year unless he got a head start by taking courses last summer or more than four credits in at least one semester last year. (I assume the latter is unlikely, but hey--Nathan is pretty impressive).

Yale's rules are designed to ensure that students who receive a Yale degree actually did the bulk of their coursework at Yale. A student can count as many on-campus summer courses toward graduation as he or she wants, but Yale offers relatively few summer courses. Yale doesn't offer online courses during the year. A maximum of four Yale online summer courses can count toward graduation, and students can only take a maximum of two online courses per summer. A maximum of two courses from other universities, online or not, may count toward that 36-credit graduation requirement, and the bar to transfer online course credit is set high. Online courses can't be used to make up a deficit in progress toward graduation.

So assuming that Nathan isn't planning to graduate early (which would bring an additional set of rules into play, again designed to ensure that a student with a Yale degree actually got a Yale education), his options are pretty limited. He can take a maximum of six online courses, which would most sensibly work out at two per summer (four from Yale and two from other institutions). He could take additional on-campus summer courses, but that would (obviously) keep him in New Haven over the summer, away from Raf and the rest of his coaches and choreographers, not to mention his family. If he took two courses last summer, he could get away with taking three credits each semester this year--but even if he took another two courses next summer, he would have to go back up to four credits each semester the following year in order to keep up with the increasing progress requirements in his last two years.

To sum up: Yale leaves its students relatively little wiggle room. I'd say it's most likely that Nathan fulfilled his first-year requirements by taking four credits in each semester last year and either took two online summer courses, which would allow him to take three credits per semester this year, or is taking four credits per semester this year. It's also possible, of course, that he took online summer courses *and* is taking four credits per semester this year, in order to have some credits in the bank in the last two years of his degree. But if he's actually planning to take the next two years off and come back to Yale after the 2022 Olympics, it might be more appealing to plan to do those courses on campus during the regular semester, to get as much of the full Yale experience and to be able to choose from as wide a range of courses as possible.

http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/course-credits-course-loads/
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/promotion-good-standing/
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/academic-penalties-restrictions/
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/special-arrangements/
http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/credit-from-other-universities/

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Tahuu said:

A good interview with substance.

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1111bm said:

Now can someone tell me why US media can't provide such good content?

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RainMaker said:

man.. i was just took a peek at the skate canada men field, and hanyu has a soft group with no big name to compete against, while in skate america nathan had to compete against boyang, jun cha, keegan messing, and aliev and jason brown, next week it going even be tougher for nathan, with shoma, Alexander Samarin, kevin amoyz and tomoki, why is his group more stacked then any other groups, he suppose to be #1 rank and his field are stacks

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oatmella said:

Cultural differences as well. I prefer Russian interviews

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