u/New-Cell1411

My gpa might be chips😭

Type of School: Competitive private? (or semi-competitive)

**Intended Major**:

* STS path

**Academics**

* GPA: \~3.76 UW/ 4.3W
* Number of Honors / AP: 11 Honors classes (school doesn't offer APs, so Honors is the highest level. PS: we also use the AP textbooks for some classes)

**Standardized Testing**

* SAT: 1560

1. ⁠Built an NLP engine that parsed 1,000+ federal grant documents. Basically helped companies get grants and guided them through the process. Reached 30+ companies and secured a lot of money.
2. ⁠Fully created a wearable that helps with a specific medical problem. Conducted live stress-testing with hospitals. Received funding; partnered with senior living facilities for testing and future deployment. Featured in local news. Secured deployment with 3+ senior homes and under medical license review.
3. ⁠Card-reselling - self-explanatory; it's not gonna be listed this high, although the revenues were pretty good.
4. ⁠Researched under an NYU professor. First-author, under review for an econ journal; preprints are published and currently under review at a journal.
5. ⁠Based on the research, built a map that corresponds with the findings, which helps startups locate and determine angel funds based on historical + ongoing data. Published findings/ presented online, and working with the mayor and the city's economics department to help with investment allocation. (This is so hard to explain, but wtv...) (Only high schooler in that office, very scary)
6. ⁠Club leader (finance) attained funds from the school endowment to invest(pretty rare for any club in our school), and hosts well-known guest speakers.....bunch of finance stuff
7. ⁠Intern - youngest intern at a law firm focused specifically on product liability litigation. Built case summaries and presented to attorneys. (Basically worked on actual cases and helped do research + provide findings).
8. ⁠Varsity sport (played for 13 years) + captain and have good results
9. ⁠Another club leader (business-related) - this one's just focusing on the entrepreneur side and analyzing a lot of stuff
10. ⁠Advertiser for one of the biggest tutoring non-profits. Communicate with news stations and help recruit tutors, using a custom algorithm. Featured in the news a couple of times.

Awards:

1. John Lo

Has anyone completed the Emergent Ventures interview and received a grant? I’m hoping to gain a little knowledge on the questions types that will be asked and learning whether I should prep for it or not. I heard that the interview process is very short (~15 minutes) and curious as to what kind of questions will be asked in such scant amount of time. I’m also pretty nervous.

Hello, this is a side project I've been working on. It is essential to fight against AI-generated applications for grants/funding, or whatever may require proof of progress. A while ago, I did some research and showed a grant reviewer two applicants (one AI-generated, one manually filed), and he told me he had difficulty distinguishing between them. So I built Beleg, an append-only, cryptographically chained ledger where you record milestones as they happen. It features an invite-witnesses system to confirm them, and a single public link where anyone can verify the whole record in their browser.

The technical core: SHA-256 hash chain where each entry links to the previous one. Change anything and every seal after it breaks. Witnesses get an email, confirm with one click, and their confirmation gets sealed into the same chain. The whole thing also gets anchored to Bitcoin periodically via OpenTimestamps.

I've recently finished the building part and am looking for founders who've applied to accelerators, grants, or pitch competitions recently, just to get an idea of whether this is optimal for founders or to move on. Any feedback is welcome!

The website is: [Belegapp.com](http://Belegapp.com)