Aleeza Yu, a Canadian-born Chinese gymnast and four-year honor roll student from a public high school in Canada, has been awarded a full athletic scholarship to study at the prestigious Stanford University in the United States.
It was not easy to compete for a full scholarship offered by such a renowned member university of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA has some 1,100 member colleges and universities that support student-athletes across over 20 sports. Competition for its scholarships, open to applicants from around the world, is quite profound. Stanford University has an admission rate of only 4.7 percent this year.
Aleeza, the daughter of an immigrant family from Hong Kong, admitted that gymnastics had given her a good opportunity to attend a good university.
A Born Gymnast
