<p>Oops. Didn’t read original post…
Okay, a person with a perfect SAT, state AP scholar of CA, at least 11 Aca dec medals from one competition and scoring third in the nation. Was on the football team one year. Highest GPA in school history. Gold medals at Sci-oly states and he had one month of preparation… First places in ARML, president of at least two clubs, a legendary moot courter, model UN, JSA… And so on so forth. Same guy, all the clubs in one year. Many people have tried to compete against/copy and they are extreme in their own ways.</p>
<p>A legend that made our school look great–I told people what school I go to at a party and they bring him up… If you go to academic competitions the year after he graduated, other schools would talk about him. Teachers a couple years after graduation have him as a ppt slide in lecture or tell stories about him!</p>
<p>This girl in my school is valedictorian, has been on varsity soccer for all 4 years, and has been in every play the Drama Club has offered. She could probably get a spot on Broadway. She isn’t extreme compared to all the crazy things I’ve seen on here but my school is very lack-luster.</p>
<p>I skipped a grade, skipped 2 grades in math, filled my schedule with AP classes, scored 99th percentile in the SAT and ACT, participated in an orchestra for 3 years and won a state music competition. It doesn’t sound extreme but I did this in the midst of my dad, 2 pets, and a friend dying, moving 5 times in the past 3 years (across state lines), and going on food stamps/unemployment.</p>
<p>We had another olympic-level athlete (fencer) who graduated two years ago. Every weekend, she would fly to England to train with gold medalists. </p>
<p>I got into Vanderbilt, UNC - Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon, and Wake Forest with a 3.1 UW GPA and no hooks. I think that’s a little extreme for someone who was the biggest slacker in HS</p>
<p>A guy who graduated last year was a senior and he figured out how to remove a water pollutant scientists are having trouble polluting and if it was a success he was said to make millions of dollars, but I’m not sure if he took his ideas to the industry yet. The guy also had 6 or 7 AP classes and scored 5s in all of them. He thought like a philosopher too, a real genius.</p>
<p>@imsobored are you serious?! Carnegie Mellon with a 3.1? What were your ec’s and sat scores? Thats brilliant…</p>
<p>Anyways I go to a public school in New York…not the best place to find exceptional people but there was one guy who got into D1 basketball. His grades were terrible though, barely went to class but never met the guy so I don’t know how true that is.</p>
<p>A current student at my high school was representing team USA in the Olympics. A girl in my class was a professional model and dancer who had a contract with a major TV station. Also, it was a super artsy school, so I knew several who won national level music and visual arts competitions.</p>
<p>Well, I can’t explain it all here, but if you Google “MEVO” you’ll find our history.
(Mahwah Environment Volunteer Organization)</p>
<p>The first step to getting it officiated (It varies by state) was to file an application packet to the corporate division of the secretary of state. Then get an EIN so that it’s recognize for tax purposes. Then file with the IRS for charitable status and that they’ll recognize you. </p>
<p>It varies by state and we had to have numerous other officiaries as Mission Statements and such. </p>
<p>My neighbor is a nationally ranked swimmer. She almost made it to the Olympics this year and is the 10th best swimmer for the 100 meter butterfly in the country regardless of age or gender. She’s going to Stanford on a full ride swimming scholarship and I would not be surprised at all if she makes it to the olympics in '16.</p>
<p>We have some swimmer who swam a race with Phelps and Lochte at the Olympic trials. We usually have one D1 basketball player each year ('13’s is going to Northern Iowa). Ummm, we don’t have too many super amazing artsy people.</p>
<p>Oh and I guess in middle school we shoveled too many kids into gifted, because then 18 kids out of 264 pupils have IQs over 140 :)</p>
<p>-------------------------------------------If it is to be, it is up to me…</p>
<p>A person who used to go to my school is the number one ranked amateur tennis player. Another person is a professional skateboarder who competed at X Games.</p>
<p>A friend of mine works for a venture capital firm ranked top 5 in the world, works in software development for a company of tech superstars which raised $5mn in funding, worked previously for the biggest r&d firm in the world (they designed siri), and also writes in his spare time for a news site in the top 5 worldwide.
he took like 14 aps at school and has a 2200 sat score.
not sure if thats so extreme, but pretty impressive to me.</p>
<p>I’m in college now but in my class there was this guy who was one of the Top 12 math students in the country. He swept all of his college acceptances (including the likes of Harvard Princeton Stanford MIT) but he was one of the most humble, nice guys I’ve met and I’m glad I became friends with him.</p>
<p>I can’t think of one specific person, but we always have a handful of basketball players with full rides to big schools (UCLA, USC, many UC’s and notable private schools). Our basketball team is stellar. We went to the state championships last year, and only lost because the ref was obviously bribed. Honestly, he didn’t call a single foul on them all game, even when they purposely injured our players on numerous occasions. Plus they were a rich private school who recruited all of their players and supplied personal trainers for each of them. We’re a broke public school that can’t even afford to offer Freshman Sports anymore. So I suppose we’re “2nd” in the state, but our boys are still incredible.</p>
<p>Nobody in my grade is extreme unfortunately…the ‘most extreme’ ones mainly just have good grades but are pretty cocky about it. I live in a middle/high class white community so it’s not very surprising. The last “extreme” person was my brother three years ago. Siemens semifinalist, questbridge match, 1000 volunteer hours, and sooo much more…</p>