18 year old Li Lingxiao is the only student in Sichuan who has received Standford's scholarship and scholarship in the early admission stage of the US undergraduate course.
"I've played all the games that I can see on the market." "Because I believe I am unique, I choose to apply for Standford again." At 8 in the evening of February 10, 2014, Li Lingxiao, 18, came out of the studio. After graduating from high school, he and his friend started a studio to develop game software, working from 9 a.m. to 7 p. m. every day.
maybe Li Lingxiao's high school students do not know that the national informatics Olympic gold medal winner, after giving up the Tsinghua University, California Berkeley, he applied two times to Stanford University, and finally to Stanford University with a scholarship of 42 thousand dollars a year (four years total of more than 1 million yuan). Take. He has also become the only student in Sichuan in recent years to receive admission and scholarship from Stanford University in the early years of EA.
A dream
love Standford's own application is rejected
"choose the independent application, no teacher, to other students abroad to seek help, and at the same time on the school home, to prepare language test. Although the opportunity is small, this despair has inspired me to take risks and challenge instincts. "
"I don't like it too much." Chengdu seven graduate of Li Lingxiao, although he gave up the Tsinghua University, California Berkeley, the first application is also lost, but because of the very love and persistent application of computers from childhood, finally won the second beautiful encounter with Standford in the winter of 2013...
"my mother can finally sleep well." On the evening of 10, Li Lingxiao, who just came out of the studio, joked. He is more than one meter eight and wears black rim glasses. After graduating from high school, he worked with several friends to start a business, develop a studio, develop game software, work from 9 a.m. to 7 p. m. every day.
"I have never been to the United States, and the information about studying abroad is secondhand." In junior high school, a computer book by Professor Standford made Don Cruz shocked by the combination of technology and art for the first time in the book. Since then, a dream of studying abroad has been hidden. After
Gao San's contests, Li Lingxiao really considered going abroad. He chose the most bumpy application of DIY, an ordinary high school student, "without a teacher, asking for help from other students abroad, on his own school page and preparing for a language test. Although the opportunity is small, this despair has inspired me to take risks and challenge instincts. "
Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Berkeley, and so on, the first application, he chose all the world's top school in the world of computer science, and also asked for a scholarship. "I am particularly fond of Standford. I did not understand the situation at the time. And I need the money. " Li Lingxiao said he chose to give up the first time he was accepted by California Berkeley in 2012 but no scholarship.
B dream
summing up the experience of frustration and so on to the letter of admission
"among all the applicants, I believe that my experience is unique, the achievement is almost useless when applying for the best school, the unique experience is the most important, and it defines how you are a person."
, since deciding to reapply, Li Lingxiao began to reexamine himself. Last year, he scored 115 points and 2240 points (2310 points) in the TOEFL and SAT tests respectively.
Li Lingxiao summed up his frustrating experience: it is not clear to apply for the school's scholarship policy, the document is too professional, the scope is narrow, and the unique place is not shown, and the difference and personality are what the foreign universities want to find among international students. As a result of the second application, he focused on the more self - level: the pursuit of a more liberal academic environment, the curiosity and desire to create the unknown, and the spirit of adventure and truth.
luckily, this time, Standford chose him - in December 14, 2013, to give him an admission notice, and a $42 thousand tuition free Scholarship (about 250 thousand yuan) per year, becoming the only time in recent years in Sichuan to get the Stanford University in the EA of the United States University. A student who admissions and scholarships.
"among all the applicants, I believe that my experience is unique, giving up the choice of going abroad and choosing gap year for a year. Li Lingxiao said, "grades are almost useless when applying for the best schools. Unique experience is the most important. It defines what kind of person you are."
C talk about dream
teacher open the green light of his own programming
"the interest of the computer, not a simple love, but a long persistence, the longer you insist, the more you can see the things that the ordinary people can't see in a certain field."
"the interest in the computer is not a simple love, but a long persistence. The longer you stick to it, you can see something that the ordinary people can't see in a certain field." Speaking of interest in computers, Li Lingxiao said that it had to start with playing games in primary schools, "I have played all the games I can see on the market." Though not helpful to learning, he gave birth to the idea of making games and programming.
after reading the primary school in Leshan, he went to the Chengdu foreign language school. "At the beginning, the results were not very good, the environment was strange, and every weekend was looking forward to going home for two hours." However, it was not adapted to motivate his potential.
"my most grateful is my junior high school class teacher, she taught us to write daily diary, learn to self management, and also for my interest in the green light, the exception allows me to use the school computer room every Tuesday and Thursday after class, without any resources in the case of self-study computer programming." After
high school, Li Lingxiao's enthusiasm for computers continued. He is a winner of various computer competitions, the gold medalist of the national informatics Olympic competition, and the opportunity to travel to St Petersburg, Russia for free travel because of the excellent results of computer programming competition.
"taking part in the competition let me learn to think independently, and let me find self worth in a way that is different from the choice of others, without the influence of the so-called mainstream thinking."
behind the scenes story
Open dad supported "not to go to college" and "
Li Lingxiao was born in a working family in Leshan. To give up Tsinghua and give up, apply to California Berkeley, such as the ox school because of no scholarship and give up, high school graduation to Beijing practice because of work environment and their own job requirements and give up, return to Chengdu to start a business...
this enlightened father even opened his door to his son and said, "it doesn't matter if you don't go to college." Dad told him with his own college experience, believed in his own ideas and tried to stick to it. That's the responsibility for his life.
"who knows what's going to happen in the future, I'm not good at making long term plans, because there's too much uncertainty, maybe I'll get to Standford to choose a computer, maybe I'll choose another major, and after all, I'll only know what it feels like." Huaxi city newspaper reporter Zhang Zheng
reporter
to courage, to youth
"do not want to be interviewed, because I do not want to break the present quiet life." Although Li Lingxiao once said that many of his ideas are childish, he can always feel his confidence and independence in a two hour conversation.
"I admit that I choose to compete to some extent trying to avoid the college entrance examination, because the competition is easier than the college entrance examination, at least for people like me." "I don't want to practice in a big company because it's hard to reflect individual value in a short time." "Application is a two-way choice process, because my experience shows that I am very suitable for Standford's free and open school spirit, so I choose to apply again."
indeed, youth is an unbridled confrontation, a gamble at no cost. It is a kind of courage for Li Lingxiao, 18 year old, or for more than 120 years to build a school for more than 120 years, to reexamine an applicant who has been rejected.