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Coming off of her Olympic debut and an eighth place finish at the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, Hughes went through yet another grueling test of her abilities—the college application process.
Her two older sisters both tried their hands at convincing Hughes of applying to their respective alma maters, Harvard and Yale. But one college stood above the rest.
“When I came to visit here, it was just an amazing place,” Hughes says of Harvard. “I couldn’t see myself anywhere else.”
Freshman year was “really funny,” Hughes recalls. Though many of her classmates at Harvard heard that there was a former Olympian among them, they did not know that the rumored individual was actually her. Since then, Hughes has emerged from obscurity as a stunningly...
Hughes has been an active member of the Harvard University Figure Skating Club, where she is seen as a “role model,” according to Club Co-President Kristina A. Nolte ’10.