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06/08/2015 15:26

Subject: Amazing story : Korean Student Gets Chance to Attend Both Harvard and Stanford

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Anonymous wrote:Is she a student at TJ?

I wonder of someone from the AAP forum has any more info. Strange story!

This story appears bogus in many respects:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/06/04/2015060400888.html
http://www.dongponews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=29044

1) She claims she received 2,400 on SAT but she is not on the list of US Presidential candidates for 2015 for Virginia which lists ALL the kids from VA receiving 1,600 in Reading and Math,
2) She claims she received 240 on her PSAT in 11th grade but she did not make the National Merit Semifinalist for Virginia for 2015 which is based on current seniors who took PSAT in junior year which has 221 minimum score cutoff,
3) She claims Harvard offered a "special scholarship" including "Harvard Faculty Scholarship" in the amount of $60,000 a year to pay tuition etc. but Harvard only offers need based aid. If she received a financial aid of $60,000 per year, her father's income would have been approximately $68,000 for 2014 which seems highly unlikely,
4) She claims to have all As and a GPA of 4.6 (presumably as of end of Junior year since senior year grades are not available yet) but that is impossible since the TJ Profile 2014-2015 lists the highest GPA for that graduating class to be 4.588 (after 4 years of As),
5) She claims Mark Zuckerberg called her and said "he wanted to meet her and that to keep in touch frequently since her research could be a significant help in his effort to spread wifi to all parts of the world" which seems unlikely,
6) The article refers to her as "International Student' and TJ does not accept any international students,
7) She claims to have scored 109 on AMC 10 when she was in 6th grade but she is not listed as having achieved high score according to the AMC 10 scores/students record for 2009,
8) She claims to have been selected as "TJ student of the year last year by the teachers" but TJ students have not heard of such recognition.

There are also claims of professors from Harvard and Stanford visiting her personally and constantly calling her to persuade her to come to their school and other claims that appear to be unlikely as well.

Odd story.

Get a grip people; anyone with a house/apartment lease in Fairfax County can go to public schools in Fairfax County. Bad tasteless prank and outright idiotic and lying article as it might be, it still did not start the war in Iraq as some of your husbands out there did, together with Judith Miller. You people must be bored out of your minds checking the NSMF lists and presidential scholars lists ; get a life, will you? imagine how beautiful and better the world would be and what you would be doing with your lives if you needed to work. Oh and by the way, whoever EVER heard of spam emails? And, by the way, the TJ school profile refers to LAST year's students, for all you idiots out there.

Not sure who is the idiot. The PP stated the TJ profile is from 2014 to 2015. 2015 to 2016 school profile will not be ready for several months since all the data will not be available for several months. That was the point. The new profile will have the GPA range for the class of 2015 and it will also include the senior year grades.

Dam right.... The profile for 2014-15 is a file added in October 2014 and it has the 2014 graduating seniors' GPA, . So she can say she has a 6.0 GPA if she wishes and your profile claim proves nada/niente/nil, all you debate champions from Sidwell et al. wake up now, will you?