<p>I thought Tiankai matriculated at MIT, but I could be mistaken in my recollection.</p>
<p>Tiankai Liu matriculated at Harvard. He, Alison Miller (IMO Gold medalist) were on the Harvard Putnam team this past year. Both took Math 55.</p>
<p>Props to Harvard for picking up Tiankai. I’m acquainted with a few acquaintances of Alison’s, and I know she had plenty of choices in colleges too, and thus must have had a good reason to matriculate at Harvard. </p>
<p>FWIW, I thought I had read somewhere that Michael Viscardi intends to be in the coming year’s Math 55 course. That course puts a young math-learner in some mighty good company.</p>
<p>going back to the merit-based scholarships… many colleges say they do not offer these when in fact they do. it’s a misleading comment… they do it to try to get the best students. i know of one student who graduated from HS in 05 and received merit-based money from several top colleges (Ivys i think) but rejected them for a full ride + summer at Oxford to Duke.</p>
<p>What HS did Michael go to?</p>
<p>homeschooled… taught by his mom.</p>
<p>The Ivy League colleges are very adamant that they do not offer merit scholarships, period. To believe the content of post #24, I would have to see the family’s financial aid filing and the actual financial aid offer letters. </p>
<p>P.S. Yes, that is correct, Michael Viscardi was homeschooled. For a while some of his math competition results listed his name with a “school” name that was unique to his family homeschool. I think his mom is Korean by ethnicity, and I wonder if she had access to some of the wonderful math textbooks that are produced in Korea.</p>
<p>I think I heard/read somewhere that he Viscardi took math courses at a university (UCSD?) and in the other subjects he was homeschooled.</p>
<p>^^Yes, his taking courses and studying with a UCSD math professor (beginning in the 8th grade) is mentioned in the article linked in post #2 of this thread.</p>