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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't meant to be mean but you seem to be pinning a lot of hope on academic stats that are good but not the best.  Even top 1 or 2 kids have trouble as nonhooked candidates without accomplishments or talents deemed as significant.   [/quote]

OP here. We know his academic stats are not absolutely perfect but they are better than just good, they are very strong even by top school standards. He is well within the top 5% of his 200-person class at a rigorous elite private that is a big ivy feeder, and he also has top scores. Also his internship experience is quite strong: he worked at the Fed and in the lab of a famous Columbia professor and contributed a lot to published research in major journals. Plus his leadership experience at school is also very good (he is the leader of two clubs and founded a third). I know he doesn't have a really major award but very few kids do anyway. I don't think all people who make it to HYPS are prodigies with major international and national awards. Sure that would help but there is a chance for very accomplished and driven kids who do not have internationally recognized accomplishments and are not prodigies.  [/quote]

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