u/mati79355

Context- East african student, private school, family low income due to substantial expenses. Highschool has been hard for me as i had to help out in my family a lot. My dad , who as the primary breadwinner, got diagnosed with a terminal illness, and that along side having to help out with my brother who is very disabled (autism) has not been easy. Idk if this context helps me for college

Stats
Cambridge CAIE student
All A*s in IGCSEs, first in schools history to do that
All predicted A*s in A levels
Physics, Math and Chemistry A levels( Max rigor from what was available)
1580 SAT(790,790)
4.0 GPA
top 1%
ECs-

1. Developed first ever communication app in home coutnry language for kids with autism, used by multiple schools,
2. Participated and performed great in prestigious CS summer program ( around 6% program), allowing me to get a stellar reccomendation letter from jelani nelson, a former harvard professor
3. Founded my own weekend CS program after that, designed my own currciulum, mentored 20+ students and made a system where some of the students take the reigns of being a mentor after we leave.
4. I feel like caregiving is an ec so theres that, i had to take care of a lot at home as my mom had to keep the family afloat financially, took a lot of time from my weekly free time
5. Stem club founder and president - where 2 teams from club ranked top 5 in city wide science fair, mentoring 20+ students
6. Continental and national science fair winner for renewable energy and resources
7. Clinic operations part time- worked at fathers clinic part time, managing monthly reports and spreadsheets
   those are my activties worth mentioning, the rest are some volunteering and first aid stuff, mostly filler

Essay- wrote abt how living in silence cuz of my brother to embracing it and making the app mentioned at the start

I (16M) am the only sibling of a heavily disabled older brother. I know what my parents expect of me currently. To take care of him when he's gone. But I don't want to lose my life for him taking care of him. Is there an alternative. PS- please dont take any offence on this i still love him dearly.

Im an international student, and i need a full ride(non negotiable), I want to major in EE. I have stats and ecs that will make me competetive anywhere but being an international student and needing full aid is what people in this god forsaken sub would say is a "bloodbath". Anyways this is my college list, can I get some advice on what i should add, remove. Please and Thank you.

Need-Blind (6)(prioritize)

• MIT
• Princeton
• Harvard
• Yale
• Dartmouth
• Brown
• Notre dame

Need aware but full ride(7)

·        Stanford

·        UPenn

·        Columbia

·        Northwestern

·        NYU Abu Dhabi(prioritize)(best chance of need awares)

·        Rice

·        Cornell

International Targets(2)

• KAIST
• HKUST

 

Okay so my issue is , i do have the material in my life to write something. Disabled brother, terminally ill parent. But i dont know HOW to write. Can someone reccomend me any resources and stuff to study, in order to brainstorm and actually write well?

Okay so my issue is , i do have the material in my life to write something. Disabled brother, terminally ill parent. But i dont know HOW to write. Can someone reccomend me any resources and stuff to study, in order to brainstorm and actually write well?

Okay so my issue is , i do have the material in my life to write something. Disabled brother, terminally ill parent. But i dont know HOW to write. Can someone reccomend me any resources and stuff to study, in order to brainstorm and actually write well?

People who got in to the college they wanted without the help of those expensive ass admissions coaches, did you use the help of ai to make ur essays sound better? if yes, how useful was it?

I got a 1530(790M,740RW) and im an international student applying to need blind and need aware schools (MIT, UPENN) and allegedly everything matters if ur applying for full aid to these need aware schools. So should i retake it?

Okay so i see a ton of kids here that basically cured cancer in the womb and the comments talkin bout " u got a 50/50" so yeah I wanna know my own chances

Ethiopian international student

Gpa- 4.0

Sat-1530(790M,740RW)(plan to retake to get 1550+)

Our curriculum is cambridge a levels

Got all A*s in igcse and predicted all A*s a level

Subjects-

A level math

A level chemistry

A level physics

ECS-

won pan African science fair for renewable energy

Won national science fair for same project

Currently have 1 research paper on accesibility to autism communication tools under peer review at curiex

Working on app for communication of kids with autism

Caregiver of parent with stage 4 cancer and brother that has non verbal autism(which apparently is an extracurricular)

Did project with arduino that solves local problem of water tanks in local community, used by a few homes

Participant of addiscoder( a prestigious summer program in my country with a lot of alumni in t5s and founded by a CS professor at Berkeley and will write a rec letter for you)

Other ecs include- volunteering(200+ hours), founding stem club, cpr certification

Is it just me that finds pure math 1 easier than igcse? We have to go through far less topics and most questions are just repetitive.

Is pure 3 waiting to humble me?

Is it just me that hasnt opened a single p1 paper in a month and cant be bothered to even do past papers anymore. Why did it have to get kaeled bro

Am I the only one getting bent over by mcq past papers rn?

Fuck everything