<p>They are not the only prize winners being admitted, but they are guaranteed. Many other top prize winners also stand a very high chance if not a guaranteed one.</p>
<p>“Evan would have gotten in anywhere he wanted”</p>
<p>If you have not figured it out, exceptional means exactly that - there is not a school on earth which will say no to them. Harvard just has an easier route to them because the prize winners seem to think “they can excel there more than any other place.” Evan won his prize working with a prof at Stanford but ended up at Harvard. It is not like he couldn’t have excelled anyplace he went.</p>