<p>Woo! Pretty bold of Ms. Gyi to choose not to attend a college that didn’t accept her. That’s about the worst example of Not Choosing Harvard that the reporter could have come up with. To begin with, CC itself is littered with examples of kids who, possibly as rejection disappointment defense mechanism, decide in advance that they wouldn’t go to HYPS even if they got in. But once the fat envelope actually arrives all that thinking goes right out the window. Who is to say what Ms. Gyi would have done if she had actually had Harvard as one of her choices?</p>
<p>There are many real examples of kids who in fact do not choose HYPSM. With a yield of ~80%, there are hundreds of kids who turn down Harvard every year. Write an article about one of them.</p>