Since China does not permit her citizens to take the SAT, Harvard devised their own test, all based on math. After the preliminary round they fly in the final fourty to meet with admissions dean, Bill Fitzsimmons, and take another math test. And guess what? These guys are not just great at math:

But he is no math geek. Tiger plays badminton and soccer, heads the Model United Nations team at one of China’s best public high schools, belongs to its literary club. And in the midst of the math contest, he was elected president of his 4,000-student school.

Tiger’s competitors were just as well rounded, even though extracurricular activities do not help them get into Chinese colleges, which weigh only scores on a two-day national exam.

Wang Shun Zhi, whose team devised an algorithm to ease traffic on Beijing’s famously congested streets, leads his school’s debate team and founded the humanism club, in addition to competing on the math and physics teams. Qin Yipeng, who invented a mathematical model for snow sweeping, was able to read more than 300 Chinese characters by age 3 and has won prizes in math, physics, chemistry, and English.

And Li Zhoujia, who equalized water distribution in sprinkler systems to prevent students from getting soaked through their open classroom window, is a lead spiker on her school’s volleyball team, an accomplished singer and actress, and editor of the student newspaper.