What made Lukasz Zbylut such a competitive applicant?

<p>A</a> ONE-MAN IVY LEAGUE - New York Post</p>

<p>He's</a> admitted into 7 Ivy League schools - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com</p>

<p>The NY Post says it's due to his 104.7 weighted GPA (what's that on a 5.0 scale?)</p>

<p>Come on, all you CC addicts, 'fess up. Your first thought when you read these articles was, "So what were his scores?"</p>

<p>My first question was ... how did he get these acceptances so soon? Questbridge?</p>

<p>Looking at the date on the article I think it was last year.</p>

<p>I didn't even notice the date -- it's from June of 2008. Why is someone digging up old news to post? And more importantly, why was this news in June? Weird.</p>

<p>what is weird about the news being from June? isn't that a few months after letters come out? Anyways, he is pretty much the perfect student that we see everyday here on CC. Good GPA, good EC's, i'm sure good test scores. Everything about him screams ivy league, especially picking up english so quickly and being so proficient at it. </p>

<p>However, I think that he is one of the lucky ones to get admitted almost everywhere he applied. Hundreds of other students have statistics similar to his but will only get into 1 maybe 2 of their reach schools. He's lucky enough to slip by and get accepted by 7 ivies.</p>

<p>Very similar stats to many CCers except he is only here for five years.</p>

<p>It's also possible that the schools realized that Lukasz Zbylut is an anagram for Lazy Bus Klutz.</p>

<p>LoL this is like the Chuck Norris of CC, haha.</p>

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WAIT. <em>. THIS KID IS A REAL PERSON? </em>?</p>

<p>what a loser, look at that grin</p>

<p>His grades were obviously great (as were, I'm sure, his scores), and his ECs were incredibly focused. Model UN, speech/debate, and Mock Trial are all very related, very time-intensive activities. If he succeeded at a state or national level in all of them, that's impressive.</p>

<p>Sidenote: I bet no females have even made eye contact with him since he got to Cambridge haha. What a total goober. At least I'm better looking than him ;)</p>

<p>That was hilarious, Hunt.</p>

<p>That kid's gonna be Harry Pottering the rest of his life. Chode timez.</p>

<p>It's the smile.</p>

<p>I remember a topic on this kid earlier this year. And lol I would like to know his scores.</p>

<p>I guess I'm alone here, but I think this story is 100% awesome. The kid seems genuinely nice, and clearly accomplished. I hope he is finding success, challenge and fun at Harvard. </p>

<p>On a side note, what did he mean about testing in Poland being "collaborative"? Did he mean you could work off of your neighbor's paper? Interesting concept!</p>

<p>At least college admission officers aren't prejudiced toward young people whose family names come at the beginning of the alphabet.</p>

<p>I was born, and partially raised, in Poland. I have NO IDEA what he's talking about.</p>

<p>I think it's funny that they attribute his success to his 104.7 GPA due to weighted grades; I'm sure there are lots of other kids for whom grade weighting gives them a really high GPA, and they don't all get into 7 Ivies!</p>

<p>I mean just look at how he holds all his acceptance letters.</p>