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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I saw this student on College Confidential and was blown away when he got into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Here's a direct link for those interested: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chanc...-chance-me-for-ivy.html#latest

The young man in The Times and CNN deserved admission to elites. But this young man above absolutely does not warrant getting into the same caliber of elite schools. His accomplishments are completely pedestrian! Also seems like pretty strong ammo for lawyers of Asian families suing these elite universities. [/quote]

Do not be deceived by numbers alone.  Einstein was not an A+++ student!!

And those who recognize this will always take Einstein over the A+ student.[/quote]

Einstein was clearly very intelligent as a child: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/02/11/was-albert-einstein-really-a-bad-student-who-failed-math/?utm_term=.8ddc209f85ed

"at age 9½, he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium, a competitive school. He liked some subjects better than others but progressed through school, again earning high marks. By age 11, he was reading college physics books... He did fine in math, but he did flunk the entrance exam to the Zurich Polytechnic when he first took it — when he was about 1 1/2 years away from graduating high school, at age 16, and hadn’t had a lot of French, the language in which the exam was given."

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