u/Lab18bke

hi. gonn keep it simple, straight.

citizenship: indian

major: systems engineering / computer science

academics: freshman year - 93%, expecting 94% ish in sophomore. (max rigour, cbse)

around 130 in the Duolingo English Test and a like 1510+ in the SAT.

ec's:

1. founder, developer @ an agency that aims to make software accessible. revenue is ₹20,000 to 30,000 per month as of now ($200-300). served more than 40 clients and helped them grow their business.

2. freelancer at multiple discord servers. average rating of 4.9 stars, done over 65 orders.

3. hosted countless minecraft events to have fun with people. reached more than 100 people and managed technical sides including plugin development, system administration for the server.

4. care taker for cancer-survivor dad and mom with chronic neck issues.

5. hosted over 9 hackathons. distributed over $400+ in prize money. mentored the winners to grow their projects to large scales.

6. played school-level tennis and was the school team captain.

I'd be an FGLI too.

awards:

1. 2x national scholarship winners, once ranked 289 and once like 728.

2. Aryabhatta Maths Challenge State Winner.

3. Countless District Maths, Science Olympiad Medals.

4. Won a lot of school awards including for Extempore, Spell Bees, Web Design Competitions and one time Student of the Year.

expected financial contribution could be around $20k/yr, rest should be aid.

the schools I wish to go to: mit, Stanford (mit Stanford are just "dreams" but you never know unless you try)

harvard, cornell, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Caltech, Purdue (if I only get into Purdue per chance, I'd be able to take out a loan for the remaining ~$25k/yr), UC Berkeley, Grinnell, Amherst, uchicago, johns hopkins, northwestern.

yeah. advice is appreciated. if your just gonna be salty deep down your heart, please skip the post. true, reasonable criticism is accepted.

93% freshman, expecting 95% sophomore. (in sophomore rn) cbse. school doesn't offer ap's and I will take SAT in jr year or so (there's no AP and sat center in my State so will do when it's a good time and i'm prepared) I'm consistently scoring above 1500 in practice sat's tho. Indian male. FGLI.

extracurriculars:

1. led and develop at KrystalStudios making ₹30,000 per month on average and aiming to lower software barriers.

2. have freelanced at multiple places and have over forty five-star reviews.

3. tutored my peers with byte-sized lessons like some minutes to help them understand hard stuff (almost daily)

4. volunteer tutor for offline kids and have taught to like 20 of them.

5. summer internships at some small companies to help them grow and land in more sales.

awards:

1. top 300 in freshman year for a national test

2. state top 10 maths.

3. usaco gold

4. More state level Olympiads with some medals.

essay will be about showing the true reflection of my life being from my folders on my laptop that is the client projects and the messed up names for everything.

list of colleges: mit, Stanford, harvard, Princeton, upenn, Columbia, duke, umass amherst, Georgia tech, ucla, uc Berkeley and now for other countries: hkust, nus, ntu, kaist.

hi. i'm in my sophomore year.

indian, male, entrepreneur.

grades:

91% in freshman (like a 3.8-3.9 GPA)

expecting 93% in sophomore.

ranked 1st out of 160 kids in my grade.

ec's:

1. i run a software development agency that aims to lower the barries for accessibility to software dev services. have served over 30 clients and netting around $200-300/m avg in revenue.

2. i've freelanced at multiple discord marketplaces and have gotten 40+ 5-star reviews for my services.

3. i've participated in multiple school-level competitions like extempore, web design competition, spell bee and won a handful of them.

4. i've tutored my peers in "byte-sized" lessons helping them grasp on harder concepts.

5. volunteered to improve community engagement in multiple servers and helped community owners see improvement in activity.

awards:

1. state #30 in maths

2. national top 300 in a scholarship (freshman year)

3. academic excellence award from first grade till ninth (tenth unannounced yet).

4. won multiple school-level olympiads.

5. also awarded the Spell Bee Winner in my school.

i'm low-income, first-generation college student.

i kinda wanna get into top / good american colleges to study, research computer science and create software that becomes as accessible as language, technology as easy to use as it gets. peace. [colleges in my mind are like: MIT, Stanford, da Ivies, top Liberal Arts Colleges, Georgia Tech, UIUC, UT Austin, UC berkeley.] (a full-ride is a good one but if i end up getting into no colleges with full aid but get into one of the publics, i can go there with a loan.)