Poor appreciation of acceptance chances.

In accordance with some of the posts above, I have to ask everyone whether they would even bother looking at Malala Youssafzai’s scores and grades were they admissions officers reviewing her application at Harvard or Stanford. I would say that she is “in” anywhere she chooses to honor with an application, and deservedly so. The competition among teenage Nobel laureates is not terribly intense; competition among high-stat high-school seniors is.