他被8所藤校+Stanford+MIT+Chicago+Caltech錄取，學霸的文書你也可以學會

09-05

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17歲的高三男生Martin Altenburg收到了12所全美頂尖大學的錄取，其中包括8所常春藤大學（哈佛、耶魯、普林斯頓、布朗、賓大、哥大、達特茅斯、康奈爾），芝加哥大學、斯坦福大學、麻省理工學院MIT、加州理工學院Caltech.讓人不得不羨慕，不得不佩服。

Martin Altenburg來自美國北達科他州一個名叫Fargo小鎮，在申請季，他也不確定自己有多少把握獲得錄取，於是他全部申請了。他說：『我爸媽本來不想讓我申請這些學校，因為他們擔心我要負擔全部學費，而這些大學學費太貴，部分大學的就讀費用都超過了我家的年收入。』

他要想申請這類頂尖大學，經濟條件並不是唯一的障礙——他沒有太多渠道去了解這些頂尖大學的相關信息。而且和其他同學一樣，他並不保證自己能在這些大學裡如魚得水，取得成功。剛進高中時，他甚至沒有考慮過自己能被藤校錄取。

家境不好，了解的信息受阻，依然不影響學霸逆襲。

不過在了解招生流程之後，他對自己充滿信心，認為自己不僅有潛力申請優質大學，甚至還可能脫穎而出。於是他把自己的申請目標盡量定稿，申請了全美所有的一流高校。

「我們是一個低收入的家庭，所以我想自己儘力，去看看自己可以到達多高，能不能得到一份好的工作，讓我了解世界如何運作，並且自己能做到真正對這個世界有影響。「他說。

學霸Martin Altenburg有著強烈的求知慾，他的高中成績是最高分——5分，修了所有AP科目，其中包括生物學，歐洲歷史，人文地理，英語，微積分和化學等等。

「我喜歡參加AP考試並學習AP科目，因為AP課程可以讓你像大學生一樣學習。」他說。

當這名學霸修完了他所在的高中提供的所有數學課，他在高二暑期參加了MIT的暑期項目MITES，並修了課程微積分2（Calculus II ）；在高三的上學期，他在本地的一所大學上了課程微積分3（Calculus III ）。

他考了ACT，也考了SAT。ACT的成績是35分（滿分36），SAT是1510分。他用了ACT成績申請大學。

從成績來看，Martin Altenburg是妥妥的學霸，有著強烈的求知慾，修了一系列高難度課程，並且都是滿分。他參加過很多數學競賽，是Fargo Youth Initiative項目的創始人和共同主席。除此之外，他有音樂和體育方面的特長，擅長小提琴，在越野、田徑、游泳運動方面參加過比賽。

Martin Altenburg的背景堪稱完美，不過在接受CNN採訪的時候，他顯得很低調：「我想上好的大學啊，但是競爭很激烈啊，所以我申請了那麼多學校啊，希望錄取的概率大一點啊。」但是沒想到全部都錄取了！

隨著申請季的結束，他必須要決定選擇接受哪一所大學的offer。目前他是在哈佛大學、普林斯頓大學、麻省理工學院和斯坦福大學這四所高校之間進行定奪。

商業內幕公布了該學霸的申請文書，全文如下。

My favorite time to run is at night.

This particular run in early August brought a break to the humid, muggy weather I left on the East Coast. I used my body as a human psychrometer, knowing that the cold feeling of evaporating sweat signaled much needed dry air.

I cross over the bridge into Minnesota. Out of my three sports, cross country is definitely my worst — but I continue to be hooked on it. Unlike swimming and track, my motivation to run is heavily intrinsic. I live for the long runs I take on by myself. While they rarely happen during our season, we were assigned a long run to complete over our first weekend of cross country. In reality, I was supposed to go six miles, but felt eight gave me more time to explore the home I had just returned to. My mind begins to wander as I once again find my rhythm.

My train of thought while running is similar to the way one thinks in the minutes before sleep — except one has more control over how these thoughts progress and what tangents they move off of. While special relativity would be the "proper" thing to think about, especially at MITES, I revive the violin repertoire I had turned away from for so long and begin playing it in my head. Im now at the edge of town in between the cornfields. The streaming floodlights on the open road give me a sense of lonely curiosity, reminiscent of the opening lines of Wieniawskis first violin concerto. I come up with adaptations of the melody in my head, experimenting with an atonality similar to Stravinskys.

I turn south onto a highway heading towards downtown. The dark night sky is broken by the oncoming light pollution. While Ive longed for a road trip across the country, the neon lights from Sunset Lanes will have to do for Las Vegas. Turning west, I see a man and perk up as I try to look more menacing than I really am. But I relinquish. I realize that I did such an act simply because of the color of his skin. I kick myself for reverting to passive racism — something I spent much of the summer trying to overcome.

The bridge over Main Avenue leads me back into North Dakota and downtown Fargo. My city is on the eve of its annual pride week — the largest in North Dakota. Beyond the rainbow flags lining downtown, I see the Catholic cathedral I attend every Sunday outside of the summer. The juxtaposition brings back memories of trying to come to terms with my own beliefs. The conservatism on my moms side of the family often clashes with the more liberal views of my dads family. Fargo is known for its "nice" attitude, but the discussion of controversial issues is often set aside in favor of maintaining peace. On the surface this can be good, but it makes change a long and cumbersome process, and has caused me to become very independent in finding my own belief system — something especially difficult when these beliefs may have to do with your future identity.

The remaining part of my run is short and uneventful. The fact that the traffic lights have switched to blinking yellow and red means that I have been out later than usual. When I get home, I find that my run took somewhere around an hour — I honestly dont care about time during my distance runs. Longs runs are often seen as a runner battling the distance rather than time. But for me, long runs are a journey — both physically and mentally. Each time I run a route, I understand my surroundings and city more and more, and couldnt be more excited and sad to know that Im leaving this place in a years time.

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