You may enjoy this fascinating story about the “Superstar Effect.” That’s how the #1 performer in a given category gets the lion’s share of the rewards. No surprise there. But what will surprise you is how some people — in this case a high school student with average test scores and only one outside activity — manages to “hack” the Superstart Effect and get into Stanford University.<\/p>\n
It’s useful reading for anyone in a highly competitive situtation. Or if you have kids who are dreaming about going to the best universities. Check out this article then, on Tim Feriss’ blog:<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may enjoy this fascinating story about the “Superstar Effect.” That’s how the #1 performer in a given category gets the lion’s share of the rewards. No surprise there. But what will surprise you is how some people — in this case a high school student with average test scores and only one outside activity […] more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliancemarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}