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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many years ago, an applicant who was denied admission to his first choice school (Yale University), pitched a tent outside of the admissions office demanding that he be admitted. Garnered student support & national publicity & he was admitted to Yale.[/quote]

I heard of a janitor at MIT that solved highly complex math problems that none of the students could solve.  Believe he was admitted directly into their graduate program.[/quote]

Interesting. Please tell us more.[/quote]

You are not serious...are you?

These kinds of things happen all the time.  I also know a homeless man that was pulled off the streets by one of the top Philadelphia trading firms and ended up becoming one of their star employees.  He made a fortune in commodities trading...specifically, frozen orange juice contracts (and pork bellies to some extent).[/quote]

I know of a family that used to be really wealthy, but suffered from embezzlement by their financial manager. Fortunately, they’d bought a town for one of their kids when he was a teenager, so they had someone to live. Anyway, it turned out their adult daughter had not graduated from high school, so she went back to high school and then graduated from some college. She was well-meaning but not exceptionally bright.[/quote]

I know a bunch of guys who were smart and got in, but then were socially excluded in the university culture.  So, they started their own fraternity, not out of revenge, but for self-empowerment.  True success story.[/quote]

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