Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 74: Sudden attack (please follow up)

"Dan Humphrey?"

Professor Sargent from Yale put down the application materials in his hand and looked up at the boy sitting at attention across the desk.

"I've looked at your SAT scores, school grades, and various award certificates, but you seem to have missed one very important honorary certificate."

Under Dan's surprised and shocked expression, Professor Sargent took out a copy of the latest "Weakness" novel.

"As a co-author of a best-selling novel that hit the New York Times best-selling novel list just after it was published, I think you are a little too low-key and modest."

Dan shrugged, acquiescing to Professor Sargent's opinion.

However, there was not much joy of success on his face.

Just three days ago, "Weakness" was officially published.

What followed was overwhelming media publicity.

Especially after the Tausi couple took the eldest Michael to the most recent episode of "The Oprah Show," almost half of the United States knew about this novel and the story of the Tausi family.

Warner Bros. played an extremely important role in this wave of publicity and promotion.

Its subsidiary Castle Rock Pictures announced on the day the novel was published that it had obtained the film and television rights to "Weakness" and the film of the same name is scheduled to be filmed and released next year.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this movie is aimed at the Oscars the year after next.

Later, the inside story of Jamie's deal with Warner was also exposed.

100 million to buy an Oscar-winning script on a popular theme is not a big deal for Warner, who has deep pockets.

What's really surprising is another collaboration Warners has struck with Jamie.

Warner announced that Jamie will write a script for a DC superhero movie. The specific content was not disclosed, but the matter still aroused heated discussions in the media and industry.

It is generally believed that the script Jamie wrote for DC is the rebooted version of Superman.

Later, Weststar Films also announced that it would invite Jamie to write the script for Deadpool.

In less than half a year after joining the Writers Guild, Jamie has become the highest-paid and most high-profile screenwriter in Hollywood.

However, none of this has much to do with Dan.

Although Dan's name and Jamie's name are listed side by side on the cover of the novel, it turns out that everyone will only pay attention to the most dazzling one among them.

What impressed Dan the most was a book signing on the second day after the novel was published. There was a long queue in front of the table where Jamie signed autographs, but few people came to Dan's side.

It was at that book signing that Dan decided to exclude the newly published "Weakness" from his application materials to Yale University.

In addition to his pride, the more important reason is that Dan believes that when Yale University professors read the application materials, they probably will not feel that the success of "Weakness" is his credit.

Even when facing Professor Sargent, Dan answered truthfully.

Without Jamie's fame and the cooperation of the media, this novel may not even have a chance to be published, let alone gain such huge fame and attention.

Professor Sargent appreciated Dan's sobriety and also told Dan an expected answer.

The application materials provided by Dan have met Yale's standards for recruiting students, but it may be difficult to obtain a full scholarship.

However, for Dan, who is about to receive a large sum of royalties, the high tuition fees at Yale are no longer a problem.

At least that's what Professor Sargent thinks.

Before ending the meeting, Professor Sargent offered Dan another option.If Dan could convince Jamie to switch to Yale, a full scholarship would no longer be an issue.

Dan refused.

He told Professor Sargent very clearly that you had the wrong person.

Although he and Jamie are good friends, they are just good friends.

Dan didn't think he had the ability to influence or even convince Jamie to change his mind.

After coming out of the office prepared for Professor Sargent at the school, Dan took out his cell phone and dialed Grandpa Nate's number to tell him that he had made a decision.

After getting Grandpa Nate's letter of recommendation to the president of Harvard, Dan decided to contact Harvard's admissions professor first.

The professor who came from Harvard this time did not choose a one-on-one meeting like Professor Sargent from Yale. Instead, he invited all the students who wanted to apply to Harvard into a classroom and met with everyone as a group just like in class. comminicate.

Dan was lucky. Although he arrived a little late, there were still empty seats in the classroom.

As soon as they sat down, Professor Godin on the podium asked everyone to come on stage to introduce themselves and explain why they wanted to apply to Harvard.

Serena and Blair, who were sitting in the front row, both wanted to be the first to speak. In the end, Professor Godin chose Serena because he had seen Serena's news in the newspaper before.

After taking the stage, Serena said very frankly that her reason for applying to Harvard was very simple, she just wanted to go to the same university as her boyfriend.

At the same time, Serena also admitted that she is still far away from meeting Harvard's admission standards in terms of academic performance and SAT scores, but in the next year, she will work hard to catch up and let Harvard see her. More shining points on the body.

Professor Godin liked Serena's speech on the stage very much, and said a lot of words of encouragement before letting the next classmate come on stage.

Just when everyone thought that Blair would be the second to take the stage to speak, someone stood up before Blair.

It's Rebecca.

As soon as she took the stage, she said that she and Serena were good friends, and they even chose Harvard for the same reason.

The only difference is that Serena wants to go to the same college as her boyfriend, while Rebecca says she wants to go to the same college as her friends.

Because only by being with good people can you become better.

Then he praised Harvard's style again.

Although this speech is highly suspected of being a routine, it can be seen that Professor Godin is not particularly disgusted by it.

After Rebecca stepped down, there was finally no one left to compete with Blair.

She got her wish and was the third to take the podium.

After introducing himself, Blair directly showed off his SAT scores and all A's in all subjects. At the same time, he proudly introduced the various extracurricular practical activities he had participated in.

Professor Godin, who was sitting below, nodded repeatedly.

According to Harvard's admissions standards, students like Blair are the most standard template.

Just when everyone thought that Blair would step down amidst warm applause, Blair on the stage suddenly made a shocking statement.

"I very much agree with what Rebecca just said. Only by being with good people can you become better. The only reason why I chose Harvard is that I believe that Harvard will never admit an alcoholic who needs to be admitted to a nursing home. The person who cut off treatment, and the daughter of an unscrupulous businessman who made money in the name of a charitable foundation.”

After saying that, two sharp sword-like eyes pierced Serena and Rebecca in the audience.

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