<p>How do schools like Ivy Leagues, top universities (i.e. MIT) and more look at these applicants?</p>
<p>Examples include:</p>
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<li>Homeschool student</li>
<li>Social economic student that works to feed family
a. Work to pay parents’ bills</li>
<li>Prodigies that only goes to High school as part time and do College work full time</li>
<li>Perfect score but low grades</li>
<li>Super good athlete (broke national world records etc.) but not that good in academics</li>
<li>Prestigious award winners but bad in other subjects…
For example, a student that can develop his own mathematical theorem and conjecture etc. but does not do well in literature/humanities</li>
<li>Parents are president of a country…Student has okay-ish grades </li>
<li>Billionaire kids, who have okay-ish grades but have lots of resources (i.e. pay full tuition, donate to schools’ annual fundings, and etc.)</li>
<li>-List goes on-</li>
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<p>How do college admission officers deal with these? Discuss</p>
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<li>That in itself doesn’t make someone a prodigy. A lot of high school students take college classes (not AP, but at a college). I assume they would consider the person’s grades in the classes they’re taking. </li>
<li>Top schools have plenty of applicants with perfect scores and high grades. But they might assume the person’s school was more challenging than usual.</li>
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<p>I dunno bout your definition of prodigy but…</p>
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<li>they clearly don’t mind these</li>
<li>why would they care more than any other job? It’s not a charity</li>
<li>i did this and they don’t care unless u have perfect test scores also</li>
<li>probably no chance</li>
<li>they use a formula, except Yale is rejecting more and more</li>
<li>this one’s interesting. IIRC the Harvard dean said they take about 200 a year with national/international awards but with low other subjects? I dunno
7-8 reminds me of the Simpsons where Yale told Mr Burns “with a score like your son’s we’ll need an international airport.” Then again Bush II got in so that tells us everything</li>
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<li><p>I was referring to students with no GPA and etc. How do they get evaluated?</p></li>
<li><p>There’s an article written about this…How Ivies were looking for these talented kids who are able to balance working and being successful at school at the same time.</p></li>
<li><p>I forgot to clarify this but I’m talking about students taking graduate level courses or have the ability to graduate at ages 15-18 or even earlier. Even though it’s very easy to attain a degree at CC. I know an example would be this kid who is currently attending UCLA at age 13 (?)</p></li>
<li><p>I guess this depends on the school where the student is currently attending right?</p></li>
<li><p>I guess they don’t necessary need the prestigious school if they can make olympic or national trial cuts</p></li>
<li><p>For example, a students that is an IMO that wants to major in math but has a D in English cause he didn’t turn in a paper…I don’t think colleges wouldn’t reject him right? Let’s make it that extreme</p></li>
<li><p>Only Harvard I guess or maybe Yale</p></li>
<li><p>Refers back to #7’s answer and just a lot of factors</p></li>
<li><p>Too many possibilities of an applicant , I guess.</p></li>
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<li><p>Homeschooled students don’t have a GPA? Even so, colleges often recalculate GPA’s anyhow because every high school does it differently these days. Besides, they’ll till have their SAT/ACT scores. </p></li>
<li><p>How would colleges know he got a D because he didn’t turn in a paper?</p></li>
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