Post Mortem of UC Applications - What Did Us In, What Helped Us?

Yes, I was joking as it seems exceedingly unlikely for any high schooler to be accomplished enough to win a Nobel Prize.

But it made me curious about whether a high school student had ever won a Nobel Prize. Turns out that the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize was…drumroll…Malala at age 17. Not sure if she was actually in school at that point, however.

And Greta was apparently a favorite for a Nobel when she was 16, but was ultimately not selected.

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