I’ve been browsing around CC for my DS and there are an awful lot of posts joking about how Ivy Leagues/Stanford/MIT are ultra-competitive and you have to be a gold medal athlete and have cured cancer to get admitted.
Well you’ll never believe it my DS found someone online who’s just done that :))
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s anyone? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11734666/15-year-old-schoolboy-develops-test-for-Alzheimers-disease.html
Then he goes onto cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/01/rising-stars-2017-research-scientist-krtin-nithiyanandam
And apparently he’s a county squash player - looks like college isn’t going to be an issue for him!