<p>“Do you really think that the 15 or so kids that finish math 55 at Harvard are the only students with math futures in the entire nation?”</p>
<p>No, but they are the only ones at Harvard who do, and when I don’t have legacy status at Princeton, what goes on there, even if it seems ideal to me from what I have read on their math department’s website, is not even relevant. I have one chance at finagling my way into what I want to do, and it seems to involve Harvard.</p>
<p>It’s not that I am “too good” for Math 25—most people in there would probably have more coursework and done more research than I have—but rather that the course shouldn’t be good enough for anyone who ever wants to go anywhere.</p>