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The exercise of how one drops out of the first year of high school to “become a poet”, gets a GED, and then proceeds to enter one of the top universities in Korea (notorious for its particularly cutthroat academic culture) right on time at 19 is left to the reader.

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Isn’t college admission there based solely on a single standardized test? If so it makes sense that a super-genius could ace it despite dropping out of high school.

No there is also admission based on school grades, essays and achievements(수시). You still have to take the national test and get the minimum required grades though.

I bet this guy Fields Medal recipient did pretty good on the test and didn't need that alternate, is it even available for dropouts by looking at grades before they dropped out?

I just looked into it and it looks like he actually went to a private cram school for a year to study for the national exam then got into Seoul National University.

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