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<p>I bet this is the strongest stat at mdapplicants!
Are people like that naturally born geniuses?</p>
<p>Genius isn’t enough. You’ve got to be hard-working, too. The two qualities sometimes don’t go hand-in-hand.</p>
<p>Being a genius is the bare minimum required.</p>
<p>And she ended up going to WashU, which has the highest average MCAT scores of any school in North America.</p>
<p>she got a 41</p>
<p>wow</p>
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<p>Being hard-working is the bare minimum required. Being smart gets you nowhere if you’re not willing to put in the time required to get great results, that like MDApplicant person did.</p>
<p>I mean, it depends on what you’re talking about the “requirements” for (getting into medical school? getting a 41?) and what you mean by “genius” and “hardworking.”</p>
<p>yes…I agree w/ what others said…She seemed to be hard working and consistent.</p>
<p>Well, accomplishing those ECs takes considerable amounts of time. So much so, that one can’t study. Hence, requiring pure intellect and photographic memory to accomplish a 3.9+.</p>
<p>Well, summer research doesn’t count against studying. The eight months in the virology lab are probably no worse than any other student with a research job during the year. Beijing was during study abroad, I’m guessing, which is usually a pretty light courseload. 2 summers volunteering, again, are done during summers.</p>
<p>(Do you see why we tell kids not to take summer school?)</p>
<p>Grade 10 in piano (my little brother did the same thing) was almost certainly accomplished before college. Don’t know about swimming, but I bet it’s the same way.</p>
<p>So she’s got the virology lab and the Red Cross. That’s great – it’s more than I did, for example – but it’s hardly backbreaking. She had plenty of time to study.</p>
<p>I suppose. I only took a cursory view at the ECs. But still, entering college at the age of 15 at least places her in the top echelon of human intellect. It wouldn’t be too radical to assume she has the capability to ace her classes with minimal effort.</p>
<p>eh, u r kind of disillusioned i shud say by her stats…which is nonetheless very spectacular and thorough…entering a college at the age of 15…it shudn’t be hard…well, of course, u must be prepared, but the requirements r not that hard in Canada or US, and she definitely I guess took up the challenge and prepared herself through the small amount of school that she did…if u think abt it…from Grade 2-7…u can learn these things in a condensed two-three years…I think that’s what she did. </p>
<p>She definitely planner her summers and is organized, as bdm pointed out, most of the stuffs were done during summer, while she did one or two regular thing during school year.</p>