<p>"Interesting that he did not apply to Brown, but applied to all 7 other Ivys, plus Stanford, NYU, and 10 other schools...how can you explain that?"</p>
<p>Duh, it's obvious that the Ivy's and the other 12 schools were all fits but Brown wasn't. </p>
<p>Besides the good part that he got to choose from all these wonderful colleges, there's one more spot for all those who were waitlisted at all the colleges he turned down.</p>
<p>what was his SAT/ACT score...</p>
<p>I think he didn't apply to Brown because they didn't accept the Common App. :P</p>
<p>Lazy.</p>
<p>I don't really think it's impressive when people get into all the ivies. Because if you're the kind of applicant that can get into all of HYP, then getting into the rest is easy. So there are sooo many people who can potentially get into every Ivy, but choose not to because they actually consider which colleges are appropriate to apply to in the application process.</p>
<p>Case in point. a lot of people that got into yale SCEA this year dropped almost all of their other applications except for the ones to HP and maybe SM. and then come regular decision, they get in. they would easily have gotten into the other schools, but they dropped the applications, so what's the big deal about this guy?</p>
<p>just sayin.</p>
<p>Well, those you got into Yale early wouldn't need a safety really and "less pretigious" colleges, so they would just apply to "HP and maybe SM" as you said without the need to other colleges. This guy didn't apply early (I'm assuming since it's not mentioned), so in his mind: "What the heck, I'll apply to all these colleges since this year is very competitive and pick from where I get in." He pulled the crank and got 7-7-7 - jackpot!</p>
<p>he tends to say "um" a lot... and he looks really young. If he hadn't opened his mouth, I would have thought that he was 13 or something.</p>
<p>Agent:</p>
<p>yeah but getting into yale early doesnt change anything. if he had applied to yale early, he would have gotten in no doubt. most (and certainly all of the ones that got into HP) that applied early to yale would have gotten into yale regular decision. so it doesnt matter. </p>
<p>the point is, he applied to 7 ivies and got in, which is no more impressive than applying to HYP and getting into all 3, and there are many more people get into HYP than those who get into all of the ivies combined, but get no recognition because they actually narrowed down their list.</p>
<p>Actually, you don't know if he would've gotten referred (irrelevant but worth mentioning). </p>
<p>What you say is true, but the culprit of this "underserved" recognition is the media. He didn't narrow down his list because (I will restate my last sentence) "in his mind: 'What the heck, I'll apply to all these colleges since this year is very competitive and pick from where I get in.' He pulled the crank and got 7-7-7 - jackpot!" The media chose to spotlight this - like a lottery winning.</p>
<p>This is the reason why I love MIT so much...they knew what they were doing. If he wanted to get into politics...why would he try to hog up so many spaces at schools kids were desperately trying to get into? I applaud MIT for seeing through this ruse.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, applaud, applaud, clap, clap, cheer, cheer…but I still don’t understand why he needed to apply to 18 schools. It’s not like other hardworking kids with near perfect GPAs didn’t get in. This is just to make everyone else feel bad…immigrating from Poland probably helped him IMO.</p>
<p>But like I said before, I love MIT.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. Looking at his activities, you can see that he's obviously not math/science oriented. </p>
<p>I find it funny that people will apply to 18 schools knowing that when fall comes around, you can only attend ONE school. No, not ten. Not twelve. One.</p>
<p>He can apply to as many as he wants. Why the backlash? Because he was featured on television?</p>
<p>Everybody's just jealous..</p>
<p>Congrats to this kid for getting into every school he applied to.</p>
<p>However, I hate the fact that he said he chose Harvard "because it's Harvard." This just shows that he had no idea what kind of school would fit him best and picked based off of name recognition. </p>
<p>I would laugh my ass off if he winds up hating Harvard.</p>
<p>Harvard a good school if you want to go into Politics. Having people like Samantha Power teaching freshman seminars leads to good connections.</p>
<p>I don't what I'm going to do if that kid is my roommate next year. I hope he isn't as big of a shumck as that photo makes him look like. O well, maybe he'll bring some video games.</p>
<p>"Harvard a good school if you want to go into Politics. Having people like Samantha Power teaching freshman seminars leads to good connections."</p>
<p>This is very true. But then again, recently, more Yale grads have made it to the higher up levels of our government than Harvard grads, so why not Yale? My point is that in the article he states that he chose Harvard simply because it's Harvard (aka-prestige, name recognition, etc). If in the article he had stated "I believe Harvard will be able to help me the best in my study of politics" then that's no big deal and is actually a mature way to look at college.</p>
<p>Why would he believe Harvard will be able to help him the best in the study of politics? Because it's Harvard...</p>
<p>Hippo - What 18-year-old is prepared to make a fully-informed decision about a particular college? Yes, I know - there are some unusual students who have a deep commitment to a field by 18 and have determined the best place to study it. But once we get to college, the rest of us change majors an average of three times. So what are the bases upon which you all are being advised to make college choices? "Do you want to be in a city or a small town? Do you want warm weather? Are you 'preppy' or 'Goth'?" Come on, you're going to college to accumulate experiences that exceed the narrower ones that you've known to this point - why rule out amazing campuses on the basis of your preferences du jour? And warm weather? Get over it - you're not going to turn down the big career promotion in 20 years because NYC is too chilly for you, so don't turn down great college opportunities now for random reasons. "Because it's Harvard" conveys a lot - the most illustrious peer group on the planet, incredible resources, the opportunity to be challenged and inspired every day of your college life. "Because it's Harvard" . . . or "Yale" or "Stanford" or several other remarkable places, is about as good a reason as I can think of for a young person to commit to a particular school.</p>
<p>well im gonna apply to 18 colleges... knowing that only one of them is for sure... so you guys cant hate me... woohoo low GPA!</p>
<p>Dang you guys are hating on this poor kid. Its not like he applied to all the Ivies... Maybe MIT didn't accept him because he was a politics kid--as reflected by his ECs--and not a math/science whiz.</p>
<p>You're not getting my point. If his acceptance list was something as follows:</p>
<p>Harvard
SUNY Stony Brook
Boston University
College of William and Mary</p>
<p>then saying "because it's Harvard" would make a lot more sense. But since his list of accepted schools included every Ivy (save Brown) Stanford and Georgetown, then "because it's Harvard" begins to lose its logic. There are plenty of people who turn down Harvard for Yale or Stanford or Princeton. </p>
<p>From his choice of schools, he would have had a great education, intelligent peers, lots and lots of prestige and numerous connections if he picked Yale or Princeton or Stanford, etc. </p>
<p>The fact that he said "Because it's Harvard" shows that he probably didn't even look into the campus/environment, social scene, etc at the schools he got accepted into. </p>
<p>Harvard isn't that much more prestigious than Yale or Princeton. If he had said something like "I like them all, but Boston's cool" or "I didn't like the others as much as Harvard because of XYZ" that would have made more sense. But he picked Harvard for prestige alone which is silly, since he got into very prestigious schools to begin with.</p>