<p>...but had NO EC'S and bad recs/essays/gpa? Haha, I was thinking about this because stupid people always say what can I do to get into X college, usually Harvard, and everyone says cure cancer, bla bla bla.</p>
<p>They likely would accept an honorary degree but not make application. Think Bill Gates!</p>
<p>Who cares, they'd make so much money between the Nobel Prize and the patent licensing fees that it wouldn't matter.</p>
<p>if they cured cancer before they applied to college? that'd be impressive.
i know someone who found a way to detect malignant melanomas without excising them, placed in the international Intel science fair and still did not get accepted to an ivy's. they had a good gpa, good recs, double legacy at one schol, and good ec's</p>
<p>i know this isn't the same as curing cancer, but it's still a MAJOR accomplishment</p>
<p>If you cure cancer, college isn't for you.</p>
<p>you would like get paid to go do research AT harvard. its not a matter of going there to LEARN but to teach the professors. and no offense to the topic maker, what's the point of this thread? are you going to cure cancer or something? if not, i've seen like 100 of these topics.... just search if you want to know.</p>
<p>Nickel, assuming everything else fell into place (scores, grades, other ec's, essays), that's just discouraging.</p>
<p>If you've already cured cancer you don't need college. You're brilliant and you're going to be rich. </p>
<p>But along this line of thinking.... Colby's admissions office had a blog, one admissions officer wrote that had already read two apps from kids who had saved someone from drowning. He still didn't tell us if they were admitted to Colby, though.</p>
<p>Another dumb topic...its just like parkrunners "If you got the Nobel prize, are you in anywhere" thread.</p>
<p>if u cured cancer, harvard does not matter. think about it, harvard would matter 0 %, u would have all the fame, respect and u would basically be the greatest person in the world for doing such a great thing</p>
<p>Okay bman and everyone else flipping out, this was just supposed to be a little funny thing I was thinking about, and for your information, I am not planning to cure cancer. Wow, the kids here.</p>
<p>Curing cancer would be an EC. :-)</p>
<p>You would get into Harvard, but as a professor.</p>
<p>you wouldn't need to go to harvard, go to grad school, get a good job if you cured cancer... You'd be rich enough for life</p>
<p>If someone cured Cancer, they'd apply to MIT, Stanford or Caltech etc. not Harvard.</p>
<p>lets be realistic. if you happened to develop a cure for cancer BEFORE going to college you obviously would have no need to go considering thousands have already gone there and not accomplished what you have.</p>
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why is that? Harvard is the number one school that gets the most grants and endowments for medical research and it is ranked the number one med school in the u.s. (go check us news' rankings, too lazy to post a link).</p>
<p>If you leapfrog the usual educational sequence and make spectacular discoveries directly, universities, private foundations, and the government have all sorts of fellowships and research funding waiting for you, or an instant professorship. Really, no need to worry about the folks who make cancer breakthroughs, once it's clear that they have a breakthrough. For those with a potential breakthrough (think Folkman) it can take many years to sell the idea to others, so a brilliant insight is not necessarily enough.</p>
<p>I think it's sad that people replied by saying that if someone cured cancer then they would not need to go to college because they would be "rich". Is being rich really an excuse or reason to not go to college?</p>
<p>You'd be rich and you probably wouldn't gain much from a college education (after all, you'd have cured cancer)</p>