<p>Our valedictorian is going to Princeton and volunteering a year in Senegal. We also have Frankie Vali’s grandson and the children of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito went to my high school as well</p>
<p>How does a highschool student go about starting their own business? I’ve never heard that in Canada before. Don’t you have to be a legal adult to do that? How do young students start organizations? Does not doing these thing make me ineligible to attend a top American school? In Canada, highschoolers do not often have the opportunity to conduct research.</p>
<p>I get up every morning then do what I’m told and I thought that was good enough :(</p>
<p>Valedictorian for the grade above me: best oboe player in the state, 4.0, valedictorian 2200+ SAT, class president, tons of volunteer work including medical assistant work in Africa over the summer, shockingly nice for someone so ridiculously awesome, going into sophomore year at Harvard… where she has a 4.0 </p>
<p>One of brother’s friends took the SAT in 9th grade so he could apply for a summer program at a college and he got a 2400. He then found out that he had still gotten a question wrong, so he retook it in 11th grade and got a 2400 with every question right. He was also valedictorian and school president and he ended up at Stanford, I think.</p>
<p>A girl at my school went to a book signing, told the author everything that was wrong with his books, and ended up editing the rest of the books in the series. She even got her name in the acknowledgements in the back of the book.</p>
<p>This guy was the (only?) Student Member of the Board of Education to hold his position for two years in my county. (very prestigious considering how important an issue education is in my county)</p>
<p>I believe he took 17 ap’s (vast majority 5’s and the remaining 4’s) and I heard that he took the SAT the first time in his sophomore year and landed a 2370. Graduated with an IB diploma, entering Harvard this fall. (and he does not have a URM hook to help him)</p>
<p>A girl in 7th grade got a book published
We have a number of all-England swimmers
One of my friends represemted England for Cross Country
We have an international fencer
We have a member of the UK Youth Parliament
Another of my friends speaks or is learning 7 languages</p>
<p>At our joint boy’s school, someone took A-level (similar to AP standard) maths in 6th grade</p>
<p>My friend’s brother (who graduated from my school three or four years ago) is the three time Pokemon world champion. Also the first American to win. He gets mad college money from it too. XD</p>
<p>Kid at my school got into Cambridge as a sophomore. He also won a scholarship for inventing something. (I’m being vague on purpose)</p>
<p>Lol…“extreme” on this forum has multiple meanings…</p>
<p>A kid I know of skipped several grades (all subjects) before and after taking upper level college math while still in junior high. He’s currently working on graduate level (math) research interests… At the same time, he’s strangely polite and “normal.” 
Would rather participate in activities of interest and goof off with friends/family than study. 
He’ll graduate at 15…</p>
<p>Some of these are fairly mediocre, while some are very interesting.</p>
<p>For example:
mediocre: qualifying for USAMO
getting into Harvard
taking a lot of AP’s
getting 2400 SAT/36 ACT</p>
<p>better:
winning the USAMO
doing very interesting (sorry) research,
any sort of fairly unique, national recognition
unique opportunities and achievements, etc.</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster - there is a very large spectrum of “extreme” here.</p>
<p>My friend and I won the Yu-Gi-Oh competition in room 690 last week</p>
<p>There’s a freshman who’s the best in his AP Calc BC class. I don’t know much else about him, but even being that far ahead is a huge accomplishment since my school’s curriculum makes it very difficult to get into AP Calc before senior year. The way I figure, he must’ve been doing Algebra I in third grade to swing it.</p>
<p>There’s a senior girl who has owned and operated a known fashion blog since she was, like, six.</p>
<p>Some people have won some pretty impressive English and poetry awards, sometimes within the state or country.</p>
<p>In sixth grade, I took some school-wide aptitude test and did better than anyone else in the school except for an eighth-grader. It didn’t get me too much recognition, but I still feel special for it.</p>
<p>Last year, a couple of then-seniors got 36Ps (everything right) on the ACT. We also had someone with a 2400 on the SAT a few years ago.</p>
<p>Considering the OP didn<code>t specifically say the “extreme” had to be something good (though the OP gave good examples), I</code>ll go with the opposite end of extreme:</p>
<p>There<code>s a kid who went to my high school (and elementary & middle schools) that</code>s an official juvenile delinquent. That explains the “went” part.</p>
<p>Probably not that uncommon though.</p>
<p>One girl who was a grade ahead of me (dropped out for her career junior year, I believe) became a youtube celebrity and went on tour and released a pop CD and all. Yeah.</p>
<p>One person at my school, wait for it, skipped class to play some Yugioh in the rose garden. Now that’s extreme.</p>
<p>A couple of guys at my high school raped a girl and beat her into a coma. They’re both in the local Juvie now.</p>
<p>On the positive side, a girl at my high school is a well-known local musician and is supposedly getting offers from somewhat major labels. She’s played concerts for hundreds (maybe thousands) of people before.</p>
<p>^Well I think that beats mine. The kid at my school was caught breaking and entering into an abandoned house [BOLD] WITH [/BOLD] his dad…his dad actually encouraged him to go with him.</p>
<p>7 APs, state debate winner, President of like 5 clubs, quiz bowl team, and speaks 3 languages fluently</p>
<p>There’s a girl in a grade above me who qualified for worlds in her sports and is preparing to go the 2016 Summer Olympics. She’s ridiculously athletic and also gets near perfect grades in the most difficult courses offered at our school. O__O</p>