Would winning the nobel prize garuntee admission?

Applying to College
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<p>Feynmann's test result:</p>

<p>"He obtained a perfect score on the entrance exams to Princeton University in mathematics and physics — an unprecedented feat — but did rather poorly on the history and English portions"</p>

<p>LOL, we can guess which part of the SAT did he bomb with the 400.</p>

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<p>I have never seen Richard Feynman's SAT score, but 1000 is pretty much impossible. I read a bio of him, and he said he won the award for every subject (english included) as a high school senior. And he had already worked through calculus by the end of high school. Then he won the Putnam (national collegiate mathematics championships).</p>

<p>Also, do you think someone could get into MIT with a 1000 SAT score? LOL.</p>

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<p>The notion that SAT scores could be indicative of possible nobel prize winners is just ridiculous. At most it would be a coincidence.</p>

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<p>yes , it would guarantee admission, unless on the college essay he put that he knew he was "garunteed the nobel prize after curing AIDS" in which case he would be laughed off the face of the world.</p>

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<p>Is that the mail order thing that comes with an booklet for 50 bucks?</p>

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<p>If you won a nobel prize, any college would probably accept but if you performed such a feat to win a nobel prize, you probably wouldn't need to go to college.</p>

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<p>There was a kid in my HS who won the most prestigious int'l math contest.</p>

<p>He didn't even bother to complete his application, but the school that he ended up going to, nonetheless, admitted him.</p>

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<p>But even that pales in comparison to the Nobel Prize.</p>

<p>I know several students like that, k&s. Well, I mean in that their international-level awards, with their sheer impressiveness, practically guarantee said students entry into any school they apply to, not that they actually didn't complete their applications. So anyways, yes, the Nobel Prize would "garuntee" admission to even the TOP schools, let alone the OP's question of it merely getting someone into ANY school.</p>

<p>Suffice it to say, however, that some third-tier schools may actually reject a Nobel Prize winner in order to jump up some 300 places in U.S. News by appearing uber-uber-...-uber-selective. :p</p>