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<p>Of course I’m no admissions expert, but I say yes, if only because your s has such a focused talent and such an unusual talent. I have a good friend from high school who was absolutely stellar in one subject and somewhat lackluster in others (unlike Tibetan or anything like that, this subject is pretty standard). Everything he did in high school circled around his fascination with the one subject. His list of college acceptances was hysterical-- in at Yale and Princeton, in at the safety, rejections everywhere else. Anyway, he started winning departmental awards as a first-year at Yale.</p>
<p>Another friend of mine was also a decently good student. (And by decently good, I mean that he was qualified to consider ivies, but he was not really an academic superstar and not somebody I thought would make the best candidate for top school). However, he also had a really focused passion in a field that most people overlook, and Harvard said yes.</p>
<p>I know that my two anecdotes don’t really mean diddly, as many kids with fascinating interests don’t get into Harvard, but I use them as an example of how superpassion can carry you into a school like Harvard when maybe other aspects of the application aren’t as shiny. In either case, I’m sure that adcoms will find your son’s interest really, really, cool.</p>