<p>A San Diego student praised for his "profound" mathematical proof that won him the top prize ($100,000) in the 2005 Siemens Westinghouse science and math competition is applying to Harvard EA. He is also an accomplished musician and has perfect SATs:</p>
<p>[/start sarcasm] hmm, I wonder if he'll get in. [end sarcasm]</p>
<p>Bigger speculation is whether that is the school he will choose?? I am wondering. He could end up elsewhere 'ya know.</p>
<p>This is true, other schools will be ****ing their pants to get their mitts on him... and emptying their wallets.</p>
<p>He could choose Princeton for access to the math research that goes on there and the higher level access. I am intersted to see where he goes.</p>
<p>It looks like he's particularly aiming for the joint program Harvard has with the NE Conservatory.</p>
<p>Wow.....that is a difficult program. He must be an amazing kid.......I hope he loves whatever school he chooses. I have a friend who won for math a number of years ago, he chose Harvard and is now at P'ton. He loved the math department.</p>
<p>Good luck to him (as if he'll need it). The 4th place winner goes to my school, but I've no idea where he's applying.</p>
<p>he might become one of those kids rejected by every school because he's too good. I'd laugh my ass off at that</p>
<p>Second place too went early action for Harvard...haha and I think the 3rd place winner is a CCer who's floating around the Harvard forum</p>
<p>almost every national finalist is applying EA to Harvard</p>
<p>Harvard is his top choice. If accepted, he will most likely go there. Many of the national finalists are indeed applying to Harvard EA, including Michael (#1), Kiran (#2), myself (#3), Luyi (#5), Ron (#5 team), and Huy (#3 team).</p>
<p>I have very little doubt Michael will be accepted. He is a math genius, plain and simple. He took calculus in 8th grade and is now taking graduate level differential geometry. To top it off, he is a very accomplished violin virtuoso, and just the nicest kid around. I would consider it an honor to go to Harvard with him :)</p>
<p>By the way, I am certainly floating around the Harvard forum, but I only joined the other day ;) hehe</p>
<p>One of my son's closest friends at Harvard is last year's Siemen's top winner (he spent Thanksgiving with us). They met at the Intel Finals in D.C. Like the top Siemen's kids, a large percentage of the 40 Intel finalists from last year are also at Harvard. It seems that these accomplished science/math kids are drawn more to Harvard than the other top schools.</p>
<p>Most Intel/Westinghouse winners go to Harvard. If not, they tend to go to MIT, or maybe full-scholarship to Caltech</p>
<p>Donemom, it's very interesting, I agree, how most of these (us, hopefully?) big winners go on to Harvard and not, say, MIT or Princeton. And everyone has their own reasons, too. Best math dept., best chem, best astro, etc. :)</p>
<p>kind of a stupid question but i would appreciate an answer from ppl who are knowledgeable in the area:</p>
<p>my friend won the grand prize award at the INTEL ISEF in one of the fourteen categories. is that "better" than winning number one in SIEMENS WESTINGHOUSE?</p>
<p>Probably not. But ISEF is pretty huge too!!!!!!!! :) I can only hope to win the space science category at this year's ISEF. My region (LISEF) isn't even known for sending space projects to ISEF...:</p>
<p>Donemom:</p>
<p>Did your son's friend mention why he chose Harvard over other top science schools such as Princeton/Cornell/MIT/etc.? Did he also do a math project?</p>
<p>That kid truly deserves to make it, not only is he a genius in math but he also his a musical wizard, and he seems like hes not an ass </p>
<p>Definitely a Harvard auto admit</p>
<p>Biz--I totally agree :)</p>
<p>Ginny--For what I can answer of that question, he didn't do a math project (this was an exception because very rarely is a kid advanced enough in math to do such a great project in the field), he actually made a machine that converts ocean waves to usable energy, or something...</p>