broke intl chud bags ivies, goes after asian baddies instead
Demographics
• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: South Asian (cooked 💔)
• Residence: International
• Income Bracket: Low to Mid ig (75k USD)
• Type of School: Private
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A
Intended Major (s): CS with heavy interest in research, possibly w a minor in AI or Econ
Academics
• GPA (UW/V): 3.98
• Rank (or percentile): top 10% graduating
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: total of 10 APs, 5s on all except 1
• Senior Year Course Load: Math, Advanced Math, Physics, Chemistry, Coding for nerds (its a real class), Piano, English, French
Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
• SATI: 1570 (770R, 800M)
• ACT: 36
Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.
- CS research under a very well known professor at one of the top institutes in the country
- State level badminton champion
- Internship at a well known software company (top 10 in my area)
- Independent research under review on AI in physics
- Independent research published on topology in string theory
- Stanford summer program
- President of 4 school clubs, and founder of 1 (500+ members from grades 6th to 12th)
- Regular volunteer for 12 years with a homeless shelter, received awards for community service
- Tutor for kids aged 10 to 16 (one of my kids got into a really prestigious math camp and credited me for it lol)
- Econ camp at the best institute in the country
Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
- National level Physics gold medalist
- National level math gold medalist
- 2nd in an international hackathon
- C2 french proficiency (why did i put this)
- Trinity grade 6 guitar
Letters of Recommendation
Physics Olympiad Coach - 10/10
Prof i did research with - maybe 8/10 (i was super irritating i dint know how he didnt kill me)
Econ camp mentor - 10/10 we were super tight
Essays
Wrote about how being multilingual shaped my identity in different ways and how I associated different subjects/parts of my personality w a particular language. It was mid lowkey maybe a 6/10
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:
UNC Chapel Hill (RD)
Emory (RD)
UChicago (RD)
>!Brown University!< (RD)
>!Cornell University!< (RD)
UCSD (RD)
UC Irvine (RD)
UCB (RD)
USC (RD)
georgia Tech (RD)
Purdue (RD)
Northwestern (RD)
>!Imperial College London!<
University College London
Kings College London
University of Bristol
>!NUS (COMMITEDDD!!!)!<
>!NTU!<
University of Toronto
McGill University
UT Austin
Waitlists:
Columbia University
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
Rejections:
Harvard University
Princeton University
MIT
NYU (???)
Dartmouth College
UCLA
Oxford University
Additional Information:
Pretty happy w my results, did NOT expect quite a few colleges that were in here. It really does take just one