<p>Super detective work.</p>
<p>lol a very good chance that he's in then...</p>
<p>You should see Natalie Portman's profile on wikipedia.</p>
<p>In high school "straight-A honors student with many academic achievements"
"Her 1998 high school paper on the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen earned her a semi-finalist placement in the Intel Science Talent Search." </p>
<p>She actually got into Harvard before Star Wars but after Anywhere But Here. Totally one of my favourite idols.</p>
<p>didn't the Olson twins go to NYU?</p>
<p>With a $6 million dorm if I can recall...</p>
<p>one of them dropped out</p>
<p>ack did anyone else remember that barton was In the sixth sense as that girl under the table in that scene in the middle???
it'd be like a reunion for them...</p>
<p>ahhaha yes i remember, although i was totally shocked at how much she's change. a reunion would be funny!=)</p>
<p>does portman dorm at Harvard?</p>
<p>I doubt it. Is she a senior this year?</p>
<p>wow that's strange. I looked up portman in the intel archives, but couldn't find her</p>
<p>Yeah, me neither. Probably because she was a semi-finalist. What ticks me off is all the kids that have other people (namely their parents) do their whole projects. Not saying that all do, because I know a guy who was a finalist a few years back who spent hundreds of hours on his project, but I'm sure most do.</p>
<p>semifinalists are also listed on the intel archives. There's an interesting discussion on the parent's forum about how much work kids actually put into their projects. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=39501&highlight=intel%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=39501&highlight=intel</a></p>
<p>Wow, wonderful article wrath. I knew most of these kids were just full of it. You would think Intel would actually question them to see if they knew what they were even talking about. Trust me - it's no coincidence that the New Mexico winner is almost always some kid whose parents are scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Intel needs to wake up and quit being so naive about these projects. That thread summed it up perfectly. My hat is off to those who actually did everything themselves or with minimal help, but those who had "scientist buddies" to help them win thousands of dollars and an admission to Harvard need to clean up their acts.</p>
<p>Well, this should cheer you up: Let me tell you all something about how we do intel in our school. First off we used to get ~2 semifinalists every year and in 2002 (I believe, or 2003) a 9th place winner. However, note that we mainly submit social/behavioral studies.
We have 1 teacher for 15 students. NYC education; we do almost everything ourselves. We pick our study; we operationalize our variables; and we spent hours reviewing the literature in our journals. A lot of students also win YES (Young Epidemiology Scholars) and WISE Quality of Life.
It is the most amazing and hardest thing I've ever don in my life--but it's a great hook and labor of love.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I doubt it. Is she a senior this year?<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Natalie Portman graduated from Harvard in 2003.</p>
<p>portman's SAT was actually a 1400</p>
<p>I'm sure a huge celebrity could just go wherever they want.</p>
<p>speaking of celebrities, i'm watching I Love the 80s Strikes Back and they showed a clip of Bronson Pinchot, ES '81. He was good friends with David Hyde Pierce, SM '81. ah Yale, so many cool people went here.</p>
<p>I saw Ben Stein on VHI a couple of months a go. Though not the coolest person in the world, he did score a 1570 on his SATs. If I remember correctly he also graduated top of his class at YLS</p>