<p>don't forget too that these cases were highly publicized -- that may have played a role in their thinking</p>
<p>environmentalist, I sympathize with your cynicism. It is a frenzied situation for student choosing to enter the super elite admissions game. However it is a choice. Some, like our DS, simply choose to live a typical teenage life filled with friends and "EC's" which will never end up on a college application. They choose to forego the super elite admissions game.</p>
<p>Is it a wise choice? It was for our son. He had a great time during hs and is doing amazingly well in college, albeit not HYP or one of the few other super elites. And more importantly he is really enjoying life w/o looking back.</p>
<p>An added benefit is that he seems to have had more academic honors/benefits come his way thus far than fellow classmate who chose the super elite route.</p>
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I was thinking the same thing. WHat better way for a college to appear very selective than to defer a 2400 SAT kid who was featured in a prominent magazine!</p>
<p>Cynical, maybe, but not a crazy theory.</p>
<p>Super-Applicants Super-Update
They did super-duper.
By Marisa Meltzer </p>
<p>Early-admission results are in for the ten hyperqualified ?super-applicants? featured in New York. Unsurprisingly, nobody was flat-out rejected. Half are already in: Stem-cell researcher Courtney Sachs to Princeton; black belt Allie Ossa to Yale; debater Jeremy Sklaroff to Columbia; gay-straight-alliance activist Diana Marin to Harvard; and Latin scholar Matthew Pincus to Georgetown. Two students opted not to apply early: Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America scholar Paul White and cancer researcher Vadim Shteyler. Three others were deferred, to be considered along with the masses this spring: crocodile-tooth archaeologist Harmain Khan (Harvard), perfect SAT scorer Liming Luo (MIT), and Make-a-Wish Foundation spokesperson Megan Popkin (from Brown, along with her twin sister). That last one surprised Katherine Cohen, the admissions consultant who reviewed the students? credentials for us. ?I didn?t know she had a twin,? she said. ?If they don?t want to be separated, the weaker applicant could have kept her out.?</p>
<p>It would have been so easy to find ten kids who would all get in early. It wouldn't surprise me if the article deliberately chose a few kids who they thought would get deferred to spur on the admissions hype.</p>
<p>Momof2011, thanks for posting the update to the article!</p>
<p>Wow... that is scary though, to think that not all of them were accepted straight out.
By the way, I completely believe the research thing. ... and you don't always have to get connections just to do research. I am doing research and I definitely didn't have any connections to get in. ... Besides, it seemed that most of those professors in the research field are pretty nice people.</p>
<p>Replying to CountingDown's post at #226: It is .net not .com </p>
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<p>Just trying to help!</p>
<p>Hmmmmm, Pincus didn't get into Williams early.</p>
<p>SimpleTruth, he didn't apply ED to Williams. He applied early to Georgetown & was accepted.</p>
<p>The article says he's applying to Williams early, so I assumed that's what he did. Looking back now, I realize he can't apply to both at the same time since Williams is ED while Georgetown is EA.</p>
<p>madness...</p>
<p>I wonder what final MIT decision Liming Luo got yesterday..</p>
<p>^^^ She was denied.</p>
<p>I hope she has some other terrific options!</p>
<p>Sorry for the double post, but my editing time ran out.</p>
<p>She was accepted to Caltech.</p>
<p>... and rejected by MIT."</p>
<p>So much for the theory that MIT practices gender affirmative action ...</p>
<p>Asians no count in gender affirmative action!</p>
<p>because Asians don't have genders....lol</p>
<p>I agree with jrpar that the ping pong is intriguing.</p>