<p>Hey,</p>
<p>For those who read Chinese , here's an interesting article about Harvard.</p>
<p>sigh...a 7 page article...in traditional (!!) chinese >< i downloaded it into NJstar to change it to simplified...
the father of this girl who got into Harvard couple years ago in nanjing wrote a book on "the Pathway into Harvard"...my dad's like: "i wanna write that book too for u!" .=)</p>
<p>ali_liu, are you a Harvard student?</p>
<p>Oh god its in traditional..not going to be bothered reading...im sure its the usual azn hype elevating harvard students to god-like status..</p>
<p>if anyone can summarise the article that would be good;)</p>
<p>Nice article. That other student who was admitted into Harvard 2009 was one of the chairs of Taiwan MUN.</p>
<p>Hey jay01,</p>
<p>Here's a simplified to traditional Chinese converter:</p>
<p>Is it really that hard to read traditional characters? I can read both.</p>
<p>Hey, what about us non-asian, single-language people? Could someone fill us in? :)</p>
<p>I though most colleges recommends you have 4 years in a foreign language koala :p is your second languange English with a brit accent??? :p </p>
<p>im jking. Can someone do a rough translation? I can't read traditional at all... too many symbols and just too many things to consider at once!</p>
<p>Hmm,</p>
<p>I actually met this freshman (David Yang) the other day. It seems like Business Weekly actually flew reporters out from Taiwan to the US to interview him in Illinois, then travelled with him to Boston for the first few days of Harvard. Curiously, he was very modest (almost shy) about it.</p>
<p>Just curious, does anyone else know him? Is anyone else from his high school (Naperville North, I think)? Is he really as well-known at Naperville North as the article makes him out to be? Hehe, I don't mean to sound cynical, I'm just curious.</p>
<p>I didn't even know he attend Harvard (just looked him up in facebook, and I've seen him around campus). Honestly, at Harvard, the first thing you have to accept is you are NOT going to be an all-star where everyone knows you, but just a student. You will have to accept getting a B (which I'm already used to getting since my high school did not exactly have grade inflation).</p>
<p>Cool!! Does anyone have a translation of this article? Or, does anyone else know this guy and want to say something about him? It's amazing that a magazine would spend that much money just to interview him (so, I really want to see this article) Thx.</p>
<p>Oops, I meant so much money b/c they flew reporters out to IL and then out to Harvard</p>
<p>This is how the first page of the article appears on my window (I use the Mozilla Firefox browser):</p>
<pre><code>楊程鈞一家人
從小用心陪伴，楊鴻銘和太太林玉葉，親手把兒子楊程鈞送進哈佛，人生，了無遺憾
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<p>一個台商父親，為了培育下一代，舉家移民美國20年，他失去公司上市的機會，卻得到一個哈佛子弟，這是全世界5千萬個高中畢業生，競逐的1,650個機會。</p>
<p>Harvard is you. Welcome to Harvard Nation!"（歡迎來到哈佛國度！）</p>
<p>九月十一日，美國東岸最宜人的季節。下午三點的陽光，斜射過一棵棵超過兩百歲高齡的美洲榆，在草坪上映照出濃淡不一的團團綠蔭。白色的教堂尖塔，在耀目陽光下，像皚皚白雪，也像聖潔的真理，以標竿之姿，指引著哈佛學子。</p>
<p>尖塔的下方，正是今年進入哈佛大學的新鮮人。在這一大片由紀念教堂、圖書館、大學樓等建築共同圍繞的草坪廣場上，排列了幾千張椅子一千六百五十位新生與他們的家人們，正以飛揚難抑的心情，迎接這人生很珍貴的一刻 參加哈佛大學開學典禮。</p>
<p>穿著「哈佛紅」校服的鼓號樂隊，吹奏著旋律奮昂的進行曲，大步進入典禮會場。「爸爸，後面！」一句標準國語 席間一個身穿藍色襯衫的大男孩，提醒他專注著錄影的父親，別擋住了樂隊去路。</p>
<p>他是台灣小孩？沒錯，這個大男孩，叫楊程鈞。他與畢業自新竹實驗中學的盧卓民，都是今年打敗全世界五千萬名高中畢業生，申請到哈佛大學的台灣孩子。</p>
<p>哈佛，是全美國，也是全世界第一流大學。根據哈佛大學統計，今年共有二萬二千七百九十六名美國和世界各國最優秀的學生，申請進入哈佛大學部。這群申請者有多優秀？旁的不說，端看入學的基本門檻ＳＡＴ（英、數兩科學業成就測驗）分數，就有五七％，約一萬三千名申請人，分數高達一千四百分以上（滿分一千六百分）；更有一四％，也就是三千二百位的申請者，是高中畢業典禮致答辭的畢業生代表。</p>
<p>獲得「提前入學許可」的楊程鈞，自然是箇中好手。在申請資料上，他的ＳＡＴ考了一千五百九十分，（只差十分滿分）、在校平均成績ＧＰＡ四‧六六分（四分為滿分，但特別困難課程滿分為五分）。而且，他入圍過美國奧林比亞高中生物代表隊決選、美國科學研究院高中生研習營、美國英特爾獎入圍初選、西屋獎入圍初選、伊利諾州年輕科學與人文獎第一名、美國中西部中文識字賽冠軍、美國高中拉丁文比賽三次金牌 ，及美國童子軍最高榮譽 老鷹勳章。</p>
<p>BA!! Does anyone know how I can make the characters actually LOOK like characters?</p>
<p>he is actually one of my friends at Harvard. i do not think reporters flew with him to interview him. and he is not the brighest one at harvard, not even close. but he is very very smart. i'm in his economics class. he is from RSI</p>
<p>keepdreaming: As a fellow 09 classmate, I can really say there is no "brightest" person at Harvard. Everyone is good at something, but of course, there are lacking in some other aspect. Someone might be a terrific writer while terrible at science but another person would be a national chemistry olympiad gold medalist but wouldn't know what syntactic theory would be. Everyone is very smart; now that we're here, we just need to pursue what our strengths are and do the best that we can in them.</p>
<p>keepdreaming:</p>
<p>Why do you not think reporters flew out to interview him? It seemed like Tiro had asked him directly. Hehe, if you ask him yourself, post his response XD I'm curious if they really did flew reporters out from Taiwan.</p>
<p>There are like dozens of articles like these ("How my son got into Harvard"...."How my daughter got into Yale"...etc.) in Chinese newspapers around here every week. And everytime my mom tells me to read them. I find them to be so cliche.</p>
<p>Oh, I didn't realize there were a lot of these articles. How can all these newspapers afford to fly reporters overseas just for a report though? For this guy, there was a reporter and a photographer flew from Taiwan to Illinois then to Harvard. Just the plane tickets alone must be around $1500 for the two people. Then plus food and lodging and other costs for a week or so, that probably bumps it over $2000.</p>
<p>Though, this BusinessWeekly article is more than just how this guy got into Harvard. It actually seems like the main figure of the article might be this guy's dad (maybe...). bbboston935, if you have a link to those other articles, can you post it here? It's always interesting to compare how different reporters focus on different aspects. Plus, the story behind this BusinessWeekly article was pretty good (in my opinion) and other similar articles would be cool to read too.</p>
<p>i can ask when i see him today.</p>