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...people have the opportunity to learn English fluently in three years. Even fewer have the ability. But then Anh T. Nguyen-Huynh, a recently admitted member of the Class of 1990, is no average Harvard pre-freshman...
Since he escaped from Vietnam with his mother and younger sister in 1981, Nguyen hasn't let his new-found culture or language stop him from achieving much more than the ordinary Ivy League applicant...
...Nguyen, the son of a lieutenant commander in the South Vietnamese Army, already has decided to matriculate at Harvard next September and study biochemistry. His teachers back home call him a scientific prodigy...
...weren't allowed to leave legally," Nguyen begins. "If we had been caught, they would have put us in jail and taken all our belongings. After crossing the border, we went to Thailand and stayed in refugee camps there[for a year], and then to Indonesia and Singapore...
Despite his year in the detention camps, Nguyen continued his education, concentrating mainly on learning English, reading "everything I got my hands on." He points out that in the process of reading many books, he also has broadened his education and learned many other topics besides English...