<p>if I were to have theoretically found the cure for cancer.</p>
<p>Let’s assume that Potassium Cyanoferrate makes cancer cells realize the errors of their ways and turn back to normal, thereby stopping the tumor with no surgery or chemo required, just a pill of this substance. And let’s say I discovered this, but DID NOT enter any science competition, did not patent it, etc. The general scientific community is not aware that I have found a cure for cancer, but every patient who has been administered this drug was cured to 100%.</p>
<p>If you did not patent it or got recognized for your invention, Yale won’t assume that you actually found the cure.
Given other parts of your application is mediocre, the chance is pretty near 0%.</p>
<p>just my opinion… haha an interesting question though.</p>
<p>If every patient who has been administered this Wonder Drug has been cured of cancer, the scientific community would most definitely be aware of it. First of all, you’d have to get it approved by the proper government channels in order for it to make its way through the hospitals to the patients. Second of all, a huge amount of resources would probably be mysteriously depleted, and they’d hunt you down.</p>
<p>Now, If you simply bypassed the medical community and gave it to cancer patients, who took it on good will, you most probably would be arrested for manufacturing and distrubuting potential poisons. However, applying from a jail cell might make you stand out from the rest of the boring, house-bound scholars, and Yale would give you a chance. Then you’d have the satisfaction of knowing that you could have attended this wonderful university, if only you hadn’t put peoples’ lives in danger and put yourself in 30 years to life.</p>
<p>To the OP: Couldn’t anyone mix random chemicals and say that it cured cancer? It’d have the same effect as what you suggested that you hypothetically did with “Potassium Cyanoferrate”.</p>