u/pmaldini27

**Demographics**

* Gender: M
* Race/Ethnicity: asian
* Residence: Virginia
* Living in USA, but considered INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT
* Type of School: large public

**Intended Major(s)**: Biomedical Engineering 

**Academics**

* GPA (UW/W): 3.97/4.7
* Rank (or percentile): School doesn't rank
* APs/DEs: AP World, AP Stats, AP Precalc, AP Lang, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Bio, DE Physics, Multivariable Calculus DE, AP Physics C Mech, AP DE Chemistry, AP Gov

**Standardized Testing**

*List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.*

* ACT: Did not take
* Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): None
* SAT: 1510 (800 Math, 710 RW)

**Extracurriculars/Activities**

*List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.*

10, 11, 12 - **Research Intern at Georgetown Med:** worked on developing novel computational model for predicting drug binding affinities, resulting in filed patent, published preprint in biorxiv, and ongoing nature communications peer review as first-author.

11, 12 - **Research Contributor at AI Company:** research volunteer/contributor to AI company focused on embeddings and representation learning at MIT CSAIL. working on single-cell embeddings, phenotype and genotype layers, cell representation learning, etc.

9, 10, 11, 12 - **US East Youth Lead for Nonprofit**: been volunteering with this nonprofit about disabilities since freshman year and am currently the lead for the US East portion of their high school volunteering program. helped raise thousands of dollars, advocacy of assistive technologies, and around 300 hours of volunteering. Submitted proposal regarding assistive technologies and venue upgrades to LA 2028 paralympics committee.

11, 12 - **Research Volunteer at Med AI Company**: working to build open-source agentic medical fact verifier from LLMs through reinforcement learning, with applications in future medical LLM training. Likely resulting in biorxiv preprint in 2026 summer/blog post.

9 - **Software Engineering Fellow at AI Company** \- accepted as a software engineering fellow at an AI company, where I built projects and received mentorship from Capital One, Google, Amazone, etc. employees and regularly participated in hackathons. My team and I received top 20 out of 200+ teams in their hackathon.

10 - **Johns Hopkins Global Health Leaders Conference** \- accepted to JHU GLOHEA conference about public health, attended workshops from JHU professors and completed activities that enhanced my global health knowledge.

10, 11, 12 - **President of USA Biology Olympiad at School** \- expanded membership since sophomore year by 120% and led workshops and lessons to teach members about usabo conceptual knowledge. hosted q/a and more.

10, 11 - **Computer Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of cshs

11 - **Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of snhs

**Awards/Honors**

*List all awards and honors submitted on your application.*

1. Maybe: regeneron STS top 300 (will submit after to RD apps as an app update)
2. State Junior Academy of Sciences Computational Biology 3rd Place
3. Preprinted 3 first author papers on biorxiv (1 under review @ nature comms.)
4. Regional science and engineering fair 3rd place in computational biology
5. Congressional award gold
6. All state music all 4 years of high school

LORs
AP bio teacher - can highlight my scientific research and intellectual curiosity (9.5/10)

AP calc bc teacher - can show my collaborative leadership and working well with others (8/10)

Georgetown PI I worked with since sophomore year - can show me growth as a researcher and first author submitting to nature comms and outstanding high schooler contributing to real research (9.5/10)

Essays
personal statement about religious community I’ve been part of for a decade. Supps will mainly be about my research activities (biotech related)

Hello, I am a high school student and have seen other fellow high school students work as NeurIPS and other conference reviewers? Does anyone know how this is possible?

What even is this? Did you guys get the email about joining the mailing list and resources will be shared there?

I wanted to write this essay as a chronological reflection on growing up in the same religious community for over a decade, focusing on how my role shifted from being one of the youngest children sitting on a rug to eventually becoming part of the youth group, where I now participate as an older member with more responsibility. I will frame the essay around the idea that this transition was gradual and only became clear in hindsight.

I will begin by describing my earliest experiences attending these weekly gatherings as a first grader. I will include how I sat with other children on a rug while adults and older members told stories and shared teachings from our holy book. I will emphasize that at this stage, I was fully in the position of a learner and observer, and I did not yet understand the structure or responsibility within the community (my role was entirely passive here and was simply being taught by elders).

I will then describe how, over the years, I moved through different age levels within the organization. I will show how the same space remained constant, but the people around me and my position within it slowly changed. I will include the idea that I began to recognize younger children entering the space I once occupied, which will help establish the theme of time passing and roles shifting.

I will introduce the increasing difficulty of continuing this routine as I entered high school. I will explain that my academic workload and extracurricular commitments made Sundays more demanding, and I will include that attending became a conscious decision rather than something automatic. I will incorporate the idea that there was a saying within the community about not being lazy to attend (there is a specific saying in my language for not being lazy to go every Sunday which I can refer to here), and I will use this to symbolize the discipline of showing up consistently even when it is inconvenient.

I will then include a specific past moment from a few years ago, before I joined the youth group. I will describe how children were asked to prepare a speech about topics from our holy book, and how one younger child was struggling to come up with ideas and structure his thoughts. I will show how I stepped in to help him develop a story and organize his speech, focusing on what I actively did rather than just what I realized. I will present this as a concrete moment of taking responsibility for someone else within the same environment I grew up in.

I will use that moment to symbolize the beginning of my transition from being someone who needed guidance to someone who could provide it. I will connect it to the realization that the same kind of support I once received from older members was now something I was capable of offering to others.

I will conclude by reflecting on how, by the time I reached the youth group, I had already begun stepping into a more responsible role within the community. I will emphasize that this shift did not happen in a single moment but through years of consistent attendance and small acts of support. I will highlight that my understanding of responsibility comes from this long-term experience of gradually moving from being guided to guiding others, and I will frame it as a cycle that continues as each generation grows into the next.

P.S. Sorry for all the "I will."

Just wanted some feedback on how this looks.

I wanted to write this essay as a chronological reflection on growing up in the same religious community for over a decade, focusing on how my role shifted from being one of the youngest children sitting on a rug to eventually becoming part of the youth group, where I now participate as an older member with more responsibility. I will frame the essay around the idea that this transition was gradual and only became clear in hindsight.

I will begin by describing my earliest experiences attending these weekly gatherings as a first grader. I will include how I sat with other children on a rug while adults and older members told stories and shared teachings from our holy book. I will emphasize that at this stage, I was fully in the position of a learner and observer, and I did not yet understand the structure or responsibility within the community (my role was entirely passive here and was simply being taught by elders).

I will then describe how, over the years, I moved through different age levels within the organization. I will show how the same space remained constant, but the people around me and my position within it slowly changed. I will include the idea that I began to recognize younger children entering the space I once occupied, which will help establish the theme of time passing and roles shifting.

I will introduce the increasing difficulty of continuing this routine as I entered high school. I will explain that my academic workload and extracurricular commitments made Sundays more demanding, and I will include that attending became a conscious decision rather than something automatic. I will incorporate the idea that there was a saying within the community about not being lazy to attend (there is a specific saying in my language for not being lazy to go every Sunday which I can refer to here), and I will use this to symbolize the discipline of showing up consistently even when it is inconvenient.

I will then include a specific past moment from a few years ago, before I joined the youth group. I will describe how children were asked to prepare a speech about topics from our holy book, and how one younger child was struggling to come up with ideas and structure his thoughts. I will show how I stepped in to help him develop a story and organize his speech, focusing on what I actively did rather than just what I realized. I will present this as a concrete moment of taking responsibility for someone else within the same environment I grew up in.

I will use that moment to symbolize the beginning of my transition from being someone who needed guidance to someone who could provide it. I will connect it to the realization that the same kind of support I once received from older members was now something I was capable of offering to others.

I will conclude by reflecting on how, by the time I reached the youth group, I had already begun stepping into a more responsible role within the community. I will emphasize that this shift did not happen in a single moment but through years of consistent attendance and small acts of support. I will highlight that my understanding of responsibility comes from this long-term experience of gradually moving from being guided to guiding others, and I will frame it as a cycle that continues as each generation grows into the next.

P.S. Sorry for all the "I will."

Just wanted some feedback on how this looks.

10, 11, 12 - **Research Intern at Georgetown Med:** worked on developing novel computational model for predicting drug binding affinities, resulting in filed patent, published preprint in biorxiv, and ongoing nature communications peer review as first-author.

11, 12 - **Research Contributor at AI Company:** research volunteer/contributor to AI company focused on embeddings and representation learning at MIT CSAIL. working on single-cell embeddings, phenotype and genotype layers, cell representation learning, etc.

9, 10, 11, 12 - **US East Youth Lead for Nonprofit**: been volunteering with this nonprofit about disabilities since freshman year and am currently the lead for the US East portion of their high school volunteering program. helped raise thousands of dollars, advocacy of assistive technologies, and around 300 hours of volunteering.

11, 12 - **Research Volunteer at Med AI Company**: working to build open-source agentic medical fact verifier from LLMs through reinforcement learning, with applications in future medical LLM training. Likely resulting in biorxiv preprint with research team in 2026 summer/blog post.

9 - **Software Engineering Fellow at AI Company** \- accepted as a software engineering fellow at an AI company, where I built projects and received mentorship from Capital One, Google, Amazone, etc. employees and regularly participated in hackathons. My team and I received top 20 out of 200+ teams in their hackathon.

10 - **Johns Hopkins Global Health Leaders Conference** \- accepted to JHU GLOHEA conference about public health, attended workshops from JHU professors and completed activities that enhanced my global health knowledge.

10, 11, 12 - **President of USA Biology Olympiad at School** \- expanded membership since sophomore year by 120% and led workshops and lessons to teach members about usabo conceptual knowledge. hosted q/a and more.

These are just fillers:

10, 11 - **Computer Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of cshs

11 - **Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of snhs

**Demographics**

* Gender: M
* Race/Ethnicity: asian
* Residence: Virginia
* Living in USA, but considered INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT
* Type of School: large public

**Intended Major(s)**: Biomedical Engineering 

**Academics**

* GPA (UW/W): 3.97/4.7
* Rank (or percentile): School doesn't rank
* APs/DEs: AP World, AP Stats, AP Precalc, AP Lang, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Bio, DE Physics, Multivariable Calculus DE, AP Physics C Mech, AP DE Chemistry, AP Gov

**Standardized Testing**

*List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.*

* ACT: Did not take
* Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): None
* SAT: 1510 (800 Math, 710 RW)

**Extracurriculars/Activities**

*List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.*

10, 11, 12 - **Research Intern at Georgetown Med:** worked on developing novel computational model for predicting drug binding affinities, resulting in filed patent, published preprint in biorxiv, and ongoing nature communications peer review as first-author.

11, 12 - **Research Contributor at AI Company:** research volunteer/contributor to AI company focused on embeddings and representation learning at MIT CSAIL. working on single-cell embeddings, phenotype and genotype layers, cell representation learning, etc.

9, 10, 11, 12 - **US East Youth Lead for Nonprofit**: been volunteering with this nonprofit about disabilities since freshman year and am currently the lead for the US East portion of their high school volunteering program. helped raise thousands of dollars, advocacy of assistive technologies, and around 300 hours of volunteering.

11, 12 - **Research Volunteer at Med AI Company**: working to build open-source agentic medical fact verifier from LLMs through reinforcement learning, with applications in future medical LLM training. Likely resulting in biorxiv preprint in 2026 summer/blog post.

9 - **Software Engineering Fellow at AI Company** \- accepted as a software engineering fellow at an AI company, where I built projects and received mentorship from Capital One, Google, Amazone, etc. employees and regularly participated in hackathons. My team and I received top 20 out of 200+ teams in their hackathon.

10 - **Johns Hopkins Global Health Leaders Conference** \- accepted to JHU GLOHEA conference about public health, attended workshops from JHU professors and completed activities that enhanced my global health knowledge.

11 - **Stanford iGEM Bioengineering Program** \- not done yet, but hoping to get accepted for summer of 2026. if accepted, will go through computational modeling and learn bioinformatics skills.

10, 11, 12 - **President of USA Biology Olympiad at School** \- expanded membership since sophomore year by 120% and led workshops and lessons to teach members about usabo conceptual knowledge. hosted q/a and more.

10, 11 - **Computer Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of cshs

11 - **Science Honor Society Member** \- useless, was just a member of snhs

**Awards/Honors**

*List all awards and honors submitted on your application.*

1. State Junior Academy of Sciences 3rd Place in Computational Biology (11)
2. Regional Science and Engineering Fair 3rd Place in Computational Biology (11)
3. All-State Music (9, 10, 11, 12)
4. Congressional Award Gold
5. PSAT Commended Scholar (1460/1520)

**Letters of Recommendation**

Junior AP Bio Teacher: 9.5/10 

Junior AP Calc BC Teacher: 8.5/10

Georgetown PI I worked under since sophomore year: 9.5/10

**Essays**

supps will be related to biotech probably and my interested in comp bio/bme. personal statement i'm not sure yet because I haven't done research.

**Colleges**

Johns Hopkins (BME)

Georgia Tech

UVA

Virginia Tech

MIT

Stanford

UC Berkeley

Cornell

Princeton

UPenn

Duke

UMich

Hello, I wanted to submit a paper to arxiv and utilizes Claude Sonnet 4.6 to draft my manuscript after completing the research project. I was wondering if I am able to submit this manuscript to arxiv, with me rigorously validating that my information, data, and results are all completely accurate. Would I get banned by moderation or is this allowed if I just write at the bottom in my references that AI was used to write this paper or something?

Demographics

• Gender: M
• Race/Ethnicity: asian
• Residence: Virginia
• Living in USA, but considered INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT
• Type of School: large public

Intended Major(s): Biomedical Engineering 

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.97/4.7
• Rank (or percentile): School doesn't rank
• APs/DEs: AP World, AP Stats, AP Precalc, AP Lang, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Bio, DE Physics, Multivariable Calculus DE, AP Physics C Mech, AP DE Chemistry, AP Gov

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• ACT: Did not take
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): None
• SAT: 1510 (800 Math, 710 RW)

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

10, 11, 12 - Research Intern at Georgetown Med: worked on developing novel computational model for predicting drug binding affinities, resulting in filed patent, published preprint in biorxiv, and ongoing nature communications peer review as first-author.

11, 12 - Research Contributor at AI Company: research volunteer/contributor to AI company focused on embeddings and representation learning at MIT CSAIL. working on single-cell embeddings, phenotype and genotype layers, cell representation learning, etc.

9, 10, 11, 12 - US East Youth Lead for Nonprofit: been volunteering with this nonprofit about disabilities since freshman year and am currently the lead for the US East portion of their high school volunteering program. helped raise thousands of dollars, advocacy of assistive technologies, and around 300 hours of volunteering.

11, 12 - Research Volunteer at Med AI Company: working to build open-source agentic medical fact verifier from LLMs through reinforcement learning, with applications in future medical LLM training. Likely resulting in biorxiv preprint in 2026 summer/blog post.

9 - Software Engineering Fellow at AI Company - accepted as a software engineering fellow at an AI company, where I built projects and received mentorship from Capital One, Google, Amazone, etc. employees and regularly participated in hackathons. My team and I received top 20 out of 200+ teams in their hackathon.

10 - Johns Hopkins Global Health Leaders Conference - accepted to JHU GLOHEA conference about public health, attended workshops from JHU professors and completed activities that enhanced my global health knowledge.

11 - Stanford iGEM Bioengineering Program - not done yet, but hoping to get accepted for summer of 2026. if accepted, will go through computational modeling and learn bioinformatics skills.

10, 11, 12 - President of USA Biology Olympiad at School - expanded membership since sophomore year by 120% and led workshops and lessons to teach members about usabo conceptual knowledge. hosted q/a and more.

10, 11 - Computer Science Honor Society Member - useless, was just a member of cshs

11 - Science Honor Society Member - useless, was just a member of snhs

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. State Junior Academy of Sciences 3rd Place in Computational Biology (11)
2. Regional Science and Engineering Fair 3rd Place in Computational Biology (11)
3. All-State Music (9, 10, 11, 12)
4. Congressional Award Gold
5. PSAT Commended Scholar (1460/1520)

Letters of Recommendation

Junior AP Bio Teacher: 9.5/10 

Junior AP Calc BC Teacher: 8.5/10

Georgetown PI I worked under since sophomore year: 9.5/10

Essays

supps will be related to biotech probably and my interested in comp bio/bme. personal statement i'm not sure yet because I haven't done research.

Colleges

Johns Hopkins (BME)

Georgia Tech

UVA

Virginia Tech

MIT

Stanford

UC Berkeley

Cornell

Princeton

UPenn

Duke

UMich

Demographics

• Gender: M
• Race/Ethnicity: asian
• Residence: Virginia
• NOT a citizen nor permanent resident, I was born in asia but living in US
• Type of School: large public

Intended Major(s): Biomedical Engineering 

Academics

• GPA (UW/W):

 

3.95/4.7

• Rank (or percentile): School doesn't rank
• APs/DEs: AP World, AP Stats, AP Precalc, AP Lang, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Bio, DE Physics

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• ACT: Did not take
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): None

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. - Research Contributor at AI Company: research volunteer/contributor to AI company focused on semantic maps, embeddings, etc. working on alzheimer's disease gene biomarkers, etc. founder of company is MIT prof and my group is conducting the project independently but being approved by MIT prof.
2. Rest of my activities are just clubs (Comp Sci Honor Society, Science Honor Society)

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Congressional award gold medal
2. PSAT National Merit Commended Scholar

Letters of Recommendation

Junior AP Bio Teacher: 9.5/10 

Junior AP Calc BC Teacher: 8.5/10

Essays

not sure what I want to write about, but maybe something biotech related? not really sure (open to suggestions on how to make my app stronger in my essays)

Colleges

Johns Hopkins (BME)

Georgia Tech

UVA

Virginia Tech

MIT

Stanford

UC Berkeley

Cornell

Princeton

UPenn

Duke

UMich

How much is a 58/75 and like a 6/7 on both the EBQ and AAQ

MCQ: 52-55/75

AAQ: 6-7/7

EBQ: 6-7/7

What’s the score prediction on bio if I got high 30 to low 40 and the following scores on FRQ. These are my bare minimum predictions

Q1: 6/9
Q2: 5/9
Q3: 1/4
Q4: 2/4
Q5: 3:4
Q6: 4/4