<p>wow she really did have an impressive gap year didn't she :D</p>
<p>I both sympathize with her and find her pathetic at the same time.</p>
<p>aaron12345-</p>
<p>could you be living in Fairfax County or attend TJHSST?</p>
<p>aaron12345:
"a public magnet school with average SATs in the 2200-2300s, with most kids taking 5-10+ APs and Post-APs/Dual Enrollment classes."</p>
<p>Nah, this couldn't be TJHSST, wikipedia says their combined SAT I average is only 2155. Or is TJ another pressure cooker where kids have to artificially inflate their achievements?</p>
<p>that is hilarious!!! i love that story but i must say azia kim is crazy lol love what she did tho :-P</p>
<p>well aaron12345 mentioned that a lot of students (200 something? I forget) from his school is going to UVA, which is approximately the same as the number of TJ students going to UVA every year. And he said the richest county in the country (well richiest country is the O.C. but i don't think 200 some students plan to attend UVA from CA, so I assume he's talking about Fairfax County)</p>
<p>dunno just sounded like TJHSST</p>
<p>Has she spoken to the press yet?</p>
<p>I feel bad for this girl like many of you, but she seriously has some mental disorder. For a student who went to a "prestigious" high school, she obviously can't think logically.</p>
<p>Yeah, she could pull this off for a year, but what would happen after 4 years- when she had to graduate? Would she have told her parents that she decided to drop out of Stanford or something?</p>
<p>To waste an entire year on living on a campus of a school she wasn't even going to was not a very smart thing to do. She now is a year behind of where she could have been if she had picked a not-so-high standard school. She also has to live as a legend and live with the media and attention that she never wanted. This is a lesson for all of you going for Ivy League admissions- THIS IS NOT WHAT TO DO. I thought this was common sense, but obviously not. You can't lie to your parents about which college you're attending...at least, for too long.</p>
<p>The truth was bound to come out and somebody coming from a "smart" background should have realized that. I know my opinion might sound a little bad, but how could she believe that she was going to live pretending to go there? Didn't she wonder how she could get a job with a nonexistent degree at Stanford? The dean of admissions was recently fired at MIT for lying about going to more schools than she actually had. The truth always come out when you do huge, stupid things like this. It's one thing to lie to your parent about getting an A on a paper when you really got a B. It's another thing to lie to the whole community about getting into an Ivy League and then lying to everyone on campus.</p>
<p>Something in our society needs to change and that girl needs serious help.</p>
<p>Parents need to realize that settling for a safety school is not the end of the world. They should be happy that their son or daughter is even going to college. Think about some of the kids in Africa who haven't even heard of a college. Think about the kids in America who don't have the money to pay for college so they decide to go into the workforce. TO PARENTS LIKE HERS: be happy that your son or daughter is going to college- no matter where it may be. Students all over the country are ending up settling for their safety schools, even me. I got waitlisted at Columbia and rejected at Princeton, but don't think I'm going to attempt to lie my way into one of them. I'm going to Syracuse- on a full ride- and I'm not mad about it at all. If you do go to a safety school, count it as a blessing- you'll be at the top of your classes and probably end up going to an Ivy League school for Graduate. These schools are much less competitive and it will look amazing when you graduate valedictorian whereas if you went to Princeton or another Ivy League school, you wouldn't sleep or do anything other than work and still end up in the middle.</p>
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1. I said science Olympiad was Nation wide, not world. Computer science was world, and of course these rankings only include a few countries because only a few countries have the capital and facilities to provide such an atmosphere
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<p>I know that this has nothing to do with the topic, but I just want to say, a lot of countries actually do have the facilities to do contests. There were actually 81 countries the participated in the 2004 IOI, so I'm just assuming that whatever contest Troy did isn't as popular internationally or something.</p>
<p>Hahahha, I thought that was clever!</p>
<p>I'm sorry but this girl has to have a lot of psycho potential to pull this kind of thing off. Granted, if I was completely brainwashed into believing I couldn't survive without being an Ivy/near-Ivy student, I might've done the same thing, lol. Interesting that nobody found out for an entire year though.</p>
<p>One of her few favorite movies was "Catch Me if You Can."</p>
<p>Maybe she was just bored?</p>
<p>Maybe she will be on Oprah, or better yet maybe she will write a book about her year at Stanford.</p>
<p>Fullerton is the next town over from us. Troy is a highly competitive school that places a lot of emphasis on doing well, getting high test scores, etc. I am not surprised the student came from Troy. Because the school gets transfers from several neighboring school districts and has the reputation for being a great shool, there is a lot of pressure to do well.</p>
<p>my dd, now a freshman at Baylor (4.7 GPA, NMF) got accepted at Troy when we were searching which high school to attend during the Open enrollment period in Jan of her 8th grade year -- and we decided against it because of the pressure and competition among the students.</p>
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<p>And she is probably the much happier for having avoided the pressure cooker and is clearly doing extremely well anyway. Good call.</p>
<p>hey, Stanford should let her attend their school, i mean she evaded the security department for just about 2 semesters. i think that would qualify a student entry to a top-notch university</p>
<p>My other daughter, a junior in high school, just informed me that Troy is ranked 28th best public high school in the nation. </p>
<p>Sad commentary that this student after applying to Stanford, and then getting rejected from there, felt the pressure /need to pretend to go there to keep up appearances. </p>
<p>High school seniors need to be told that there is life after college and that NOT going to an Ivy type college does not "destroy" your life.</p>
<p>My dd last year applied to 12 colleges and got into all 12 -- including Duke, UCB, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill. She chose Baylor because she thought that was the best college suited for her and because she got a full 4 year tuition scholarship there, even though Baylor is considered a "2nd tier" school. All the passions she was involved with before, she still is involved with now (tutoring children, drama, dancing, going on humanitarian mission trips -- in fact she is in Armenia on a two week humanitarian trip at this very moment with other Baylor students to serve in soup kitchens, etc). </p>
<p>Life -- and college--is what you make of it.</p>
<p>@miragemage: So many people have suggested that and been completely shut down. I disagree with you strongly. (One more has now been DE-NIED! Score!)</p>
<p>Evading the police for a relatively long period of time does not qualify one to attend prestigious universities. If so, we should send all of the FBI's Most Wanted, after finding them, to Harvard instead of jail. Or why even find them? Just announce the new deal and they'll come running over.</p>
<p>Today's Palo Alto Weekly is reporting that a second imposter student has been uncovered. Elizabeth Okazaki has been posing as a graduate physics student, apparently for several years. Stanford says it's investigating...</p>
<p>A funny comment posted at the Stanford Daily:
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okazaki fragments...
Maybe she's just hanging around to help DNA polymerase III get started?
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