<p>Gives new meaning to the word “focussed”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1117007508193670.xml&coll=1[/url]”>http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1117007508193670.xml&coll=1</a></p>
<p>She’s known that she wanted to go to Harvard since she was 10… That is crazy. But isn’t it a little presumptuous to say that going to Harvard has always been a part of her “life plan”?</p>
<p>John Quincy Adams probably said the same thing!</p>
<p>Very impressive.</p>
<p>No offense, but she doesn’t seem impressive at all. All the govt things she participated in are open to anyone (as long as you can pay).</p>
<p>Her hometown paper seems to think so.</p>
<p>I really like her attitude. She’s very motivated, but a 1360?..Her drive and desire to become the first female Prez probably turned the admission officers on.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure what she means by her comment about Condoleezza Rice and Mrs. Clinton. How is a female politician supposed to be “more feminine”?</p>
<p>good story, although it seems to me that she is a little bit more obsessed than driven</p>
<p>That’s a bit creepy. What if she hadn’t been accepted to Harvard (which is a real possibility with that 1360 SAT score of hers)? </p>
<p>And just as a side note, Mandarin Chinese is very hard to learn if you did not grow up speaking it or if you are not surrounded by people who speak it. If she is neither, she’ll have extreme difficulty learning the nuances, inflections, and all the very subtle things that go with Chinese. (I’m a native Chinese speaker, and I’ve met many people who tried to learn it, and either gave up or failed horribly)</p>
<p>Byerly, how much of a tipping factor is being published by your hometown paper for a story like that?</p>
<p>Well, of course this story came after she was already admitted.</p>
<p>See, similarly:</p>
<p><a href=“Cincinnati News, Sports and Things to Do | Cincinnati Enquirer”>Cincinnati News, Sports and Things to Do | Cincinnati Enquirer;
<p><a href=“http://www.snponline.com/NEWS4-13/4-13_bemeritscholar.htm[/url]”>http://www.snponline.com/NEWS4-13/4-13_bemeritscholar.htm</a></p>
<p>Wow. All I can say is good luck to her. If everything in that paper is true as she says it is, she must have a lot of determination. I wonder if she lives in a stingy community. I do. Raising 3000 dollars where I live for my own personal use isn’t very easy. And yes, Mandarin is hard. I know people who have only spoken Cantonese their entire lives, and they still can’t catch the subtilities of proper Mandarin. But then again, I’ve met non-Asian people who speak amazingly wonderful Mandarin.</p>
<p>she seems obnoxious</p>
<p>She seems to have made a positive impression on her peers, her school, her hometown paper and the Harvard Admissions Committee. </p>
<p>If Admissions thought highly enough of the girl to admit her despite a relatively low SAT score, you can rest assured that these people - accustomed to evaluating thousands of applicants every year - have the sense that she’s a pretty amazing person.</p>
<p>That’s just<em>forget</em>me [kid from last article]</p>
<p>She is driven, no doubt, but to the point that she seems stuck up. I didn’t get the same impression while reading the latter articles.</p>
<p>Consider that all these articles in hometown papers are not witten by Pulitzer prizewinners or the education editor of the NY Times.</p>
<p>They usually are covering a kid because the school is proud of his or her achievements, and urges the paper to write a story about him or her.</p>
<p>The reporter looks for an “angle” - and sometimes overdoes it in a heavy-handed way.</p>
<p>I second Crimson34. It is just<em>forget</em>me. Too bad he won’t be joining me as a Robertson Scholar. Would’ve been a cool guy to hang with.</p>
<p>she went to Junior Statesment Summer school, too!</p>
<p>i’m going to that!</p>