"Dan Humphrey?"

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

"I've read your SAT scores, school grades, and various award certificates, but you seem to have missed an equally important honor certificate."

As Dan stared at him with a look of surprise and shock, Professor Sargent pulled out a copy of his newly published Weakness novel.

"As a best-selling co-author who made it to the New York Times bestseller list right after its publication, I think you're a little too low-key and modest."

Dan shrugged his shoulders and acquiesced to Professor Sargent's opinion.

However, there was not much joy on his face.

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

This was accompanied by an overwhelming amount of media propaganda.

Especially after Mr. and Mrs. Tausi took Big Michael to the latest episode of "The Oprah Talk Show", almost half of America knew about the novel and the story of the Taussy family.

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

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

Clear-eyed people know at a glance that this movie is going for the Oscars the year after.

Subsequently, the inside story of Jamie's deal with Warner was also revealed.

1 million to buy an Oscar-winning popular script, which is not a big deal for the wealthy Warner.

What really came as a surprise was another collaboration between Warner and Jamie.

Warner announced that Jamie will write a script for DC's superhero movie, the details of which were not revealed, but the matter still caused heated discussions in the media and the industry.

It is widely believed that the script written by Jamie for DC is a reboot version of Superman.

Later, Weistar Pictures also announced that it would invite Jamie to write a script for Deadpool.

Less than half a year after joining the Writers Guild, Jamie has become the highest-paid and most watched screenwriter in Hollywood of the year.

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

Although Dan's name and Jamie are juxtaposed on the cover of the novel, it turns out that everyone will always focus on the brightest of them.

What touched Dan the most was a book signing the day after the novel's publication, where there was a long queue at the table where Jamie signed autographs, but Dan was rarely frequented.

It was that signing that led Dan to decide to remove the newly published "Weakness" from his application to Yale.

In addition to his self-esteem, the more important reason is that Dan believes that when the Yale professors look at the application materials, they probably don't think that the success of "Weakness" is his credit.

Even in the face of Professor Sargent, Dan answered truthfully.

Without Jamie's fame and the media's publicity, this novel might not even have a chance to be published, let alone gain the huge fame and attention it has now.

Professor Sargent admired Dan's sobriety, and at the same time gave Dan an expected answer.

Dan has provided the application materials that meet Yale's criteria for recruiting students, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to get a full scholarship.

But for Dan, who is about to receive a large amount of remuneration, Yale's high tuition fees are no longer a problem.

At least that's what Professor Sargent thinks.

Before concluding the meeting, Professor Sargent offered Dan another option.

If Dan can convince Jamie to switch to Yale, a full scholarship will no longer be an issue.

Dan refused.

He told Professor Sargent very clearly, you are looking for the wrong person.

He's good friends with Jamie, but they're just good friends.

Dan doesn't feel like he has the power to influence or even convince Jamie to change his mind.

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

After getting a letter of recommendation from Nate's grandfather to the president of Harvard, Dan decided to get in touch with the admissions professor at Harvard first.

Instead of meeting one-on-one like Professor Sargent at Yale, the professor who came to Harvard this time invited all the students who wanted to apply to Harvard to a classroom and communicate with everyone as if they were in class.

Dan was lucky, although he was a step late, but there were still empty seats in the classroom.

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

Both Serena and Blair, who were sitting in the front row, wanted to be the first to speak, and in the end, Professor Godin chose Serena on the grounds that he had seen Serena in the newspaper before.

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

At the same time, Serena also admitted that she is still some way from meeting Harvard's admission standards in terms of academic performance and SAT scores, but in the next year, she will try to catch up and let Harvard see more shining points in her.

Professor Godin liked Serena's speech on the stage and said a lot of words of encouragement before the next student took the stage.

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

It's Rebecca.

As soon as she came on stage, she said that she and Serena were good friends, and even the reasons for choosing Harvard were similar.

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 excellent people can you make yourself better.

Then he praised Harvard's fancy again.

Although there was a strong suspicion of routine in this speech, it was clear that Professor Godin was not particularly disgusted by it.

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

The third of her dreams came to the podium.

After introducing himself, Blair directly showed his SAT score and all A's in all subjects, and proudly introduced the various extracurricular activities he had participated in.

Professor Godin, who was sitting below, nodded his head in response.

According to Harvard's admissions standards, a student like Blair is the most standard template.

Just when everyone thought that Blair would step down amid a warm applause, Blair on the stage suddenly spoke amazingly.

"I very much agree with what Rebecca just said, only by being with good people can you make yourself better, and the only reason I chose Harvard is that I believe that Harvard will never admit a person who needs to go to a nursing home for amputation treatment due to alcoholism, and the daughter of an unscrupulous businessman who has made money in the name of a charitable fund."

After saying that, two sword-like gazes stabbed straight at Serena and Rebecca in the audience.