<p>There's always that one kid in your grade who does something completely extreme, and a good kind of extreme (like curing cancer, starting a very successful business, etc) - and that one kid may even be you. What is the most extreme thing that you've seen someone do (or have done yourself)? Responses don't necessarily have to be on par with curing cancer, just extreme compared to the average student.</p>
<p>My two cents:</p>
<p>He was a United States Senate Page, one of thirty in the country. They go to school in D.C. for a semester (a school specifically for senate pages), and then work with the senators when they're not in school.</p>
<p>He finished all of the math classes in our school by the end of his freshman year (AP Calc included) and he made a perfect score in math on the SAT… In 8th grade. He moved back to Korea, though.</p>
<p>A few students I know at my HS are doing research on topics such as hexose transport or autocatalytic reactions…one of them is getting published. I haven’t done much research, but I did a lot of national competitions such as USAMO…also won Div. 2 at last year’s National Scrabble Championship. And we have a team of 6th graders (6th graders!) who received a patent for an automated drop counter for IVs.</p>
<p>I went to Girls State and then Girls Nation, where I met the president. It’s not really an accomplishment, just an (extremely) awesome experience.</p>
<p>This isn’t extreme at all by CC standards, but our valedictorian last year was NMS Finalist, president of 3 clubs at school (math, chess, and something else), dual-enrolled in multivariable calculus at a local CC, AP Scholar w/Honors, and school champion of AMC12. I don’t think he ever qualified for AIME, but nonetheless, he’s going to MIT in the fall. Yeah, my school isn’t competitive at all…</p>
<p>I was first in Arizona at AMC12 in 2011 (I think, or maybe 2010), but I got beaten last year Never made NMS, I have a couple AP Scholar awards but never really cared about them.</p>
<p>There’s this Junior in my school. He’s the three-time class president, perfect GPA valedictorian, first NHS president who’s not a senior, captain of Scholar’s Bowl, captain of his soccer and baseball team, got second place in the state for the spelling bee (winner would go to DC for Scripps), and does a whole lot more. Oh and on his PSATs, he scored in the 99th percentile for every thing.</p>
<p>This is really bad compared to everyone else’s, but I go to a small rural school. I got 33 on the ACT and 210 on the PSAT when I was a sophomore and apparently that was the highest anyone ever got in the history of the school.
We seem to have a lot of good artists, though. There are always people’s amazing paintings hanging in the hallways.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know how extreme my example is but in my high school graduating class (Class of 2012) our Valedictorian & Salutorian had a G.P.A. of 4.81 & 4.54, both received full rides to their respected colleges, except the salutorian, he received the more prestigous Gates Millennium Scholar award. The Valedictorian, she decided to study either neurology or psychology at U.C.L.A. & the salutorian engineering at Cornell. Even more impressive when you factor in that only about 6 years ago our school was notorious for students brutally attacking teachers during lunch & that 99.9% of the student body is composed of low income minorities; Hispanics, African Americans & Vietnamese.</p>
<p>A girl at my school last year took 3 AP’s, started a service club, and did a bunch of other impressive-looking crap. Too bad she was overwhelmed (understandably), took to copying her homework off of everyone (well, she did that before, but she basically didn’t do her own work at all for the assignments), skipped our history class for 3 weeks (because it wasn’t an AP and therefore was ‘a waste of her time’), and told me “i’d rather be a hobo because my life would be easier.”</p>
<p>Extreme, indeed.</p>
<p>There’s another girl who’s very intelligent who got a billion awards at awards night, including a $15k/yr scholarship to Rensselaer (dunno how you get a scholarship before you even apply, but okay). Too bad she was too busy being amazing to even show up.</p>
<p>All I can think of besides that is a girl whose solo project went to NHS Nationals.</p>
<p>Like 5 years ago, there was this one girl in my school who created a social networking website that she ended up selling for $100 million. </p>
<p>In my graduating class, we had someone who was an olympic-level swimmer. I think she tried out for the US olympic team this year and almost made it.</p>
<p>This girl who graduated 2 years ago started this organization to help kids in Africa. Because of this, Bill Clinton came to our school to meet her and she was able to go on Oprah as well! She now goes to Georgetown.</p>
<p>@jax123 that’s manageable…I know sophomores who took the same rigor of classes.</p>
<p>Also, we have a student who qualified to Intel ISEF three years in a row…but then again, our school has a ton of impressive ppl. This guy also took multi-variable calculus as a junior. But I always beat him at the AMC exams :)</p>
Never made NMS, I have a couple AP Scholar awards but never really cared about them.</p>