<p>Wow, those are absolutely amazing awards; having one of the awards that she has is already incredible enough, so you can see how impressive having all of them is.</p>
<p>While congratulating her, I feel a bit envious.</p>
<p>Based on all those achievements, she is a hard-working and extremely intelligent student! This is the type of dedicated student that I strive to become. Congrats to her and I hope she has a wonderful future @ Harvard! :)</p>
<p>How did she find the time to sleep?</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>How did she find the time to sleep?</p>
<p>Her awards takes up one huge paragraph! I get dizzy just skimming through them. She prob. had to attach a separate document to her common application to make room for all of them.</p>
<p>In her case, I would’ve put her chances at HYPSM at 99.9%</p>
<p>Good for her and her brother. </p>
<p>But as a professor of mine used to say: “The A students graduate and go into academia and are never heard from again. B students go into management and screw things up. Its the C students who do all the work.”</p>
<p>Hm.
So after reading this article, my first thought was “Excuse me while I kill myself.”
Followed shortly by “I’m going to kill her.”</p>
<p>And then I realized that though I may have wasted high school in comparison, I still feel like I had fun. I’m not amazing by the conventional standard (awards, recognition, prizes, etc.) but I like to think I do okay. </p>
<p>So with college applications looming on the horizon and with the knowledge that there will ALWAYS be someone (if not some thousands of “ones”) astronomically better than me.
And I’m okay with that. </p>
<p>Am I jealous? Hell yes. But it happens.</p>
<p>I would also like to say thanks to the people who mitigated the sheer awesome-ness of her awards (its so long it might as well be made into a book >.<). As much as I would like to think I don’t need petty reassurances, I do. We all do. I think anyone who says they’re 100% happy for her and not even a smidgen jealous is lying. So thank you everyone for not being malicious about it (except at the beginning of this thread. That whole exchange between everyone getting mad at/defending Shalashaska64, who I think had legitimate opinions, was completely unnecessary).</p>
<p>So everybody BE HAPPY.</p>
<p>there was a guy in my school last year, 2nd in IChO, top in theory, </p>
<p>topped 4 subjects for the A levels (very possibly my country too)
always deans list for everything, topped 8 subjects out of 9 throughout years 7-10 (in probably the most demanding school)
1st in national olympiad for chem and phy, and math once also.
national team in shooting, made olympic cut
shooting captain
student councilor</p>
<p>sort of knew him, v humble and nice guy. got into mit and stanford but i dun think harvard accepted him</p>
<p>Whenever anyone says HYPSM is a reach for everyone… someone should mention this girl</p>
<p>It’s cool that she’s a nice person. She’s incredible, I hope she finds time to have fun though</p>