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Old Greenwich, Connecticut’s Nicholas Malchow has made a verbal commitment to the application process* at the University of Pennsylvania. He will join Matthew Fallon and Michael Foley in the Quakers’ class of 2025.
“Very excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at the University of Pennsylvania! Go Quakers!”
Malchow swims for Greenwich High School and Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club and specializes mainly in sprint freestyle. As a sophomore last March, he came in 2nd in the 50 free (21.76) and 3rd in the 100 free (48.05) at the 2019 CIAC Boys LL Championships before finishing 4th in both events at the Connecticut Open State Meet with times of 21.62 and 47.15. He followed high school season up with a solid showing at Ithaca Sectionals, where he swam the 50/100/200 free and 100 breast. Last summer he competed at TYR ISCA Summer Senior Championships, placing 4th in the 50 free, 4th in the 100 free, 10th in the 200 free, and 20th in the 100 fly. He earned lifetime bests in all four events (24.65/53.66/2:00.12 in free and 1:00.37 in fly). Since the beginning of 2020 he has gone best times in the 50/100 free, 100 back, and 200 IM.
Top SCY times:
- 50 free – 21.25
- 100 free – 46.60
- 200 free – 1:44.65
- 100 back – 52.30
- 100 fly – 53.39
- 200 IM – 1:59.42
Penn finished 7th of 8 teams at the 2020 Ivy League Men’s Championships. It took 20.87/45.62/1:42.09 to score in the 50/100/200 free at the conference meet.
*Note: A verbal commitment between an Ivy League coach and a prospective student-athlete is not an offer of admission, as only the Admission Office has that authority. The coach can only commit his or her support in the admission process. Ivy League Admission Offices do not issue “Likely Letters” before October 1 of the prospective student-athlete’s senior year of high school. The Likely Letter, while issued after an initial read of the student’s application, is not an offer of admission to the university.
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can you commit to ivy but still get rejected? just a question
congrats!!
You can. This can happen at any school, but at certain schools with very selective admissions standards (Ivies, academies) it’s a higher likelihood. This is why you don’t see Stanford swimmers lately announcing commitments until much later than most schools of their ilk. They’ve probably already committed to the coach, but are awaiting some indication from admissions.
In the Ivy, coaches like to say “committing to the admissions process,” which is a distinction that they find important.
Generally, kids won’t announce unless they have know they’ve got the qualifications to get in. Which is still not a guarantee, but anybody who’s on the fringe probably won’t announce early like this.
I used to coach in the Ivy League – The applicant gets their information reviewed and then gets a “Likely Letter” saying that its is . . . likely that they will get admitted. Something has to go pretty wrong between that time and decisions for that to change. Its very rare for a likely letter not to result in admission. Those letters don’t come until into the fall, thats the hang up.
Welcome to the Quaker family!!!
Is he legacy??
any relation to the obvious?
None that I’m aware of.