<p>If possible, please post the links :D</p>
<p>Do you mean insane as they were extremely qualified, or do you mean they had no chance of getting in?</p>
<p>insane, as in extremely qualified</p>
<p>@gtownhopeful2016</p>
<p>This thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1653594-chances-at-mit-princeton-etc.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1653594-chances-at-mit-princeton-etc.html#latest</a></p>
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<p>This guy makes me wonder why I even bothered to apply to college.</p>
<p>… and I thought a guy in my school taking Calculus AB as a sophomore was extreme. jesus</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain that example is a ■■■■■ based on other threads.</p>
<p>@skieurope you have no basis. I think I explained myself pretty thoroughly, providing names, details, etc.
If you have any questions, pm me. </p>
<p>@PurePhysics
You seem to be very good at math. Do you have USAMO, MOP, or IMO?</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco As I was saying to another poster, I don’t enjoy competition math. I have nothing against it, I just prefer working publishable research math, and contributing to my field. </p>
<p>While this guy might be fake, I do know of one person IRL who’s easily just as accomplished</p>
<p>@dividerofzero trust me, the past couple years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Eric Chen. Yeah, THAT Eric Chen. Winner of Intel sts, Siemens, and Google science fair </p>
<p>@PurePhysics that’s exactly why I find it weird that so many people are willing to dismiss you as “fake” just because you’ve accomplished this much as a sophomore. By that logic, the US doesn’t even have a team at the IMO every year because kids that good at math just can’t conceivably exist.</p>
<p>@dividerofzero precisely. I’m not even the most accomplished in my peer group. </p>
<p>■■■■■</p>
<p>IMHO it doesn’t even matter if he’s trolling because real kids like that exist. There’s one that went to a nearby school three years ago. He was so skilled and well-known that even rn my school’s valedictorians have a running joke of using his statements as our yearbook quotes and seeing if anyone catches on.</p>
<p>If the stats are insane, it’s probably too good to be true. Even if they are true, you and I have our own lives. Stats are stats and only stats. Other people’s stats shouldn’t dictate what you can accomplish.</p>
<p>True, but the stats give us an idea of what possibilities exist- especially those that aren’t being promoted at our schools. My school is far behind in STEM ECs and I only learned of Bio/Chem/Science Olympiad by noticing them on others’ “stats.” </p>
<p>@PurePhysics My apologies. I stand corrected.</p>
<p>For the record I believe you @PurePhysics. Those are some amazing accomplishments you have. I think it’s quite rude of others to dismiss you as a “■■■■■” just because they themselves believe it is unbelievable. If you check his credentials on various websites, it all checks out. You clearly have a passion for what you do, so just keep on doing it.</p>
<p>I have something that nobody can trump. On MIT’s blog, they talked about a kid who built a full on working nuclear reactor in his garage. He didn’t get in. </p>
<p>"There is nothing, literally nothing, that in and of itself will get you in to MIT.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>A few years ago, we did not admit a student who had created a fully-functional nuclear reactor in his garage.</p>
<p>Think about that for a second.</p>
<p>Now, most students, when I tell them this story, become depressed. After all, if the kid who built a freakin’ nuclear reactor didn’t get in to MIT, what chance do they have?</p>
<p>But they have it backwards. In fact, this story should be incredibly encouraging for most students. It should be liberating. Why? Because over a thousand other students were admitted to MIT that year, and none of them built a nuclear reactor!</p>
<p>I don’t mean to discourage anything from pursuing incredible science and technology research on their own. If you want to do it, DO IT. But don’t do it because you think it’s your ticket to MIT. And that applies to everything you do - classes, SATs, extracurriculars.</p>
<p>There is no golden ticket."</p>
<p><a href=“Applying Sideways | MIT Admissions”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways</a></p>