Hi, I'm former Harvard admissions + a Harvard graduate and founder of r/ivyleaguecollege . I want to start an AMA thread where you can post any question you would like me to answer about Ivy League admissions or college prep. Please stay on topic.

(Also, please be patient if it takes me a few days to answer -- I will answer!)

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I'd prefer to stay anonymous. If you somehow figure out who I am, please keep it to yourself. That means a lot to me.

I want to preface this by saying I'm not writing this for sympathy. I'm writing this because my psychologist told me to put my goals somewhere I can read them every day, and somehow Reddit felt like the right place. Maybe because strangers can be surprisingly kind.

So here goes.

I grew up in a tier 3 city in India. Going abroad to study was already a big deal in itself. But I wasn't going abroad just to get a degree or land a corporate job. During COVID, I picked up *The Intelligent Investor* by Benjamin Graham and something just clicked. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life: build my own value investment firm, a small and select group of like-minded investors, nothing bloated or corporate. Just pure, disciplined investing.

With that dream in mind I enrolled at a well-regarded university in the UAE. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are serious financial hubs and I genuinely believed I'd get hands-on, intellectually rich learning. I walked in with high hopes.

What I found was a grade factory.

Students arguing with professors over half a mark. No real curiosity, no discussions, barely any social life. Everyone competing for numbers on a transcript. For 2.5 years I sat in that environment telling myself maybe next semester it gets better. It never did. I genuinely learned more about investing from books than from anything taught in those classrooms.

Then, somewhere in the middle of all that, I got an opportunity to attend a summer program at Stanford.

Honestly? I didn't know much about Stanford at the time. Coming from where I came from, just being abroad was already a stretch. I was skeptical going in because I assumed it would be more of the same, two months of grade chasing and zero real connection. I was seriously considering skipping it and going back home for the summer instead.

I had a horse back home. I was looking forward to that more than anything.

Ten days before the program was set to start, my horse died.

I hadn't booked flights. Hadn't registered for housing or classes. I had just gotten the visa and was already mentally halfway out. I was in a bad place after losing him and had basically decided to cancel everything.

My father sat me down and said something simple: go. Take your mind off the grief. Don't worry about grades. Just go and try to have a good time.

So I went.

The moment I stepped onto Stanford's campus I felt something shift. The campus alone stopped me in my tracks. Then I got to my dorm and found out I'd be sharing a room with two other people, which was completely foreign to me after the UAE university where everyone lived in semi-private rooms and barely acknowledged each other's existence.

That shared room changed everything.

You're forced to talk. You learn about people's cultures, the way they think, where they come from. My roommates were great and those conversations alone taught me things no classroom ever could. Then the classes themselves. So many options. So many formats. I took a course on humanitarian aid where we sat around a circular table and the professor just asked everyone what they thought. No hierarchy, no judgment, just genuine exchange of ideas and sometimes deeply personal stories. The professors actually listened. They were there to teach, not to grade.

It was the best two months of my life. No exaggeration.

Coming back to the UAE university after that felt like going back to a dim room after standing in sunlight. I struggled mentally. The environment wore me down and after a while my body started catching up with what my mind was already feeling. I developed a sharp pain in my stomach that I initially brushed off.

I didn't brush it off for long.

Back in India, the pain kept getting worse. Tests were run. I was sent to Mumbai for further evaluation. The doctors there were visibly shocked by the results. They told me I had a rare form of pancreatic cancer with lesions on my liver. Something, they said, that should not be possible at my age.

My family did everything. We flew to Houston for further opinions. Same results.

The doctors were honest with us. There was no established treatment. The best option available was a medical trial, which my family declined. For the next 14 months we looked everywhere, consulted everyone, tried every door we could find. The most doctors could offer was slowing the growth.

In that time I went from living a fairly normal life to losing strength, losing weight, and eventually losing the ability to walk on my own. I now use a wheelchair. My stomach retains excess fluid that has to be drained regularly just to help me breathe properly and eat.

I've also been dealing with severe depression and anxiety through all of this. I started seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist and it has genuinely helped. One of the things they asked me to do early on was write down my goals. Not vague wishes but real, specific things. Then put them somewhere I'd see them every day so the desire to reach them stays sharp.

Here's what I wrote:

**1. Attend Stanford as a full-time student. Even if I'm older than most undergrads by the time I get there. A bachelor's in finance.**

**2. Travel the world.**

That's it. Two things. And they're enough. On the hardest days those two lines are what I come back to.

I don't know what tomorrow looks like but I'm hopeful. Genuinely. Writing this out and putting it somewhere real makes it feel more real, like a commitment I've made not just to myself but to something bigger.

If you read this far, thank you. Really. You didn't have to and you did anyway, and that means more than you probably know.

Feel free to ask me anything if you’d like to know more about applying to Cornell, and I’ll try to answer to the best of my ability

I’m currently pursuing my undergraduate degree and have just started my 3rd year. My current GPA is 3.3, and I have four semesters left.

My goal is to pursue a master’s degree at an Ivy League university. Is it still possible for someone with my profile?

Right now, I don’t have any published research papers or work experience. I know my profile isn’t very strong at the moment, but I’m willing to put in the work over the next two years.

What should I focus on to maximize my chances of getting admitted? Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Hope this provides context on the many different types of applications that can be admitted!

Demographics
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic
Residence: Northern California (Siskiyou County)
Hooks: Rural 

Intended Major(s): Linguistics, Economics

Academics
GPA: 3.6 unweighted / 4.1 weighted
Class Rank: Top 10%
# of APs: 7

Standardized Testing
ACT: 36 
AP: 7 scores of 5

Extracurriculars
My extracurriculars focused on my interest in linguistics, specifically conlangs and the Universal Grammar Theory. I’ll list my main activities below

• Founding the Siskiyou County Linguistics Alliance (very small rural organization for linguistics with ~50 kids)
• Creating my own Conlang (a fictional language and grammar system) and creating a long dictionary 
• 2 Paid Jobs at a local Mount Shasta Tour Center and a Roadhouse restaurant
• Family responsibilities, caring for mom with a stomach disorder (epithelial lining metaplasia)

Awards

• National Merit
• A local, community scholarship for my ACT score
• A county award for my small Linguistics organization
• AP Scholar with Distinction

Essays
My personal statement was very personal about my family situation and resilience I gained from, which I don't feel fully comfortable sharing in depth on Reddit. My supplements focused on unique linguistic programs at Columbia (like the Teacher’s College Program where they focus on using linguistic models in school education, which piques my interest and I did similar work on a smaller scale in my county organization)

Letters of Rec were from my English and Calculus teacher. I think they were moderately strong.

Decisions
Acceptance: Columbia (Early Decision)

Additional Information
I added more context below

I went to a high school in Northern California in Siskiyou County and our high school was considered rural. Not many kids at all go to T20s and its a small class size. I was the only one of two ivy acceptances this year (the other one was Dartmouth). Finances were not a huge issue for me (middle income with loans, some financial aid, and some grants)

I know rural is an established hook. I am also Hispanic and LGBT, though I don't know how/if that plays into admission post-affirmative action

I got a 36 ACT on the second try and opted out of science. My first attempt was a 34 but I didn't submit that. Columbia was test-optional when I applied but I still submitted

My class didn't publish class rank in the traditional sense but they did this weird thing with deciles where they would list if you were in the top two deciles. They listed if you were top 20% or top 10%. I was in the top 10%.

My school offered 8 APs and I took 7, and tied for the most number of APs taken with three other kids.

My intended major and ECs were on linguistics bc I got interested in linguistics after trying to learn Esperanto in the eight grade 😝

Hope that provides more context!

As a rising senior, I have done a lot of entrepreneurial-related projects, but practically no experience with research.

1530 SAT Superscore, 35 ACT (35 Math, 36 Reading, 34 English, 32 Science though 💀 )

Grade: 3.9-4.0 GPA UW, Homeschooled but took AP Micro/Macro + Stats with 5s, and taking classes at local community college, I'd say decent rigor; Calc 1 and 2 taken.

For Projects:
-$100k+ Revenue Business by 16, solo-founded the digital enterprise at 14 (summer before highschool) during Covid to support my family. Reached $10k/month last summer
(Although this isn't the reason we're high income, we were lucky to have some good investments and growing assets)

-Top-rated seller on ebay with 2k+ Items sold and 100% positive feedback. Decent sized seller in other platforms as well.
-Founder of online communities with 6k~ members with fusion between gaming and e-commerce. Partnered with 400k+ member server and hosted events and offered free middleman services to facilitate trades and deals between members.

-Co-lead for student led Nonprofit helping over 300 kid entrepreneurs and having cumulative 2000 attendees at business fair events.

-Social Media Channels 5k+Subscribers YT (gaming related though, but used as marketing for my business).
-5k+Followers on TT (Personal brand and basically just authentic yapping)
-Internship at Sequoia funded startup in marketing. (No noticeable contributions except ~40k+ views but learned a lot)

-Also won best startup and a $500 grant from a small entrepreneurial summer camp hosted by Wharton Graduates

-National finalist in Homeschool Speech and Debate league (STOA), 5th Place in Original Oratory, and won many local tournaments in OO and coaching my club.

-(Not sure if I will put this on EC list, but:) As a freshman, led a dev team of 4, With frontend, 2x backend, and UI designer for a for fun project that allows for people to stream anime for free, made a free API in the project's community discord server of 500+ members that allowed other people to use our code and make their own websites. Currently contemplating whether this is a good project I should add for leadership experience, although I no longer keep the website up and running cuz it costed $40 a month to manage account for 6k visitors daily on average, and since I was young, I was kinda bad at monetizing it.

Tryna go for Stanford, MIT Sloan, or the Ivy Leagues (Specifically Upenn Wharton and Cornell)

I'm also planning to apply to Babson, UW Seattle, UC Berkeley HAAS, USC, UCLA, NYU, and other schools that have resources for entrepreneurs.

^(So my son is from India, and he will be doing liberal arts for 4 years in a well known college in india, its reputation is quite good. So he aims to become an investment banker and business consultant. For getting into ivy colleges, will it be a problem that he did LIBERAL ARTS?? he is planning to do major in economics and minor in stats under liberal arts. for the courses to become IB will ivy league colleges accept him??)

^(Of course, keeping in mind he scores 3.5+ gpa, has a good gmat score, has a good profile and did a lot of internships.)

^(Please let me know)

**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)

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Non-US Citizen)
• Residence: International
• Income Bracket: Full pay - no need for scholarship
• Type of School: Competitive private feeder school
• Hooks: None
• Intended Major: Math+Linguistics/SymSys for Stanford

Academics

GPA: 3.91 UW GPA

Rank: school does not rank

SAT: 1560

Coursework: 6 IB + 1 AP
IB HL: Math AA, Econ, Phy
IB SL: Comp sci, French B, English Lang Lit
AP: Calculus BC

First term grade 39/42
Second term 40/42
Predicted will be around 42-43 / 45

Honors

• AIME Perfect Score (15/15) + National Math Olympiad Qualifer (no camp)
• Asia Pacific Linguistics Olympiad - Honourable Mention
• Silver at Research Math International Competiton (can't name it as ill get doxxed), represented my country with 5 others, fully-funded, in-person, held in Europe
• International Math Modeling Challenge (IMMC) - Meritorious - Invited to Harvard University for international summit, fully funded by Harvard, representing my country
• Iranian combinatorics olympiad - Bronze

Extracurriculars (I am keeping it vague)

1. One of PROMYS/SUMaC/Ross
2. (Engineering/Fluid Dynamics): Invented and prototyped an energy-saving pipeline insert; deployed it in residential systems to reduce water transport energy costs.
3. (Linguistics Olympiad): Top national linguistics scholar; selected for an elite training camp (<5% acceptance) covering advanced mathematical linguistics.
4. (Athletics): National-level minifootball player and vice-captain; scouted nationally and played extensively across elite regional and school leagues.
5. (Tech/AI Intern): First-ever paid technical intern at a tech startup; engineered an AI chatbot and designed core product features that scaled platform traffic.
6. (Disaster Optimization): Modeled graph theory and flood simulation data to optimize emergency shelter placement, receiving local government validation
7. (STEM Publications): Authored 2-3 peer-reviewed papers in international journals covering network security vulnerabilities and mathematical text readability
8. (EdTech Nonprofit): Founded an AI-driven digital tutoring platform, partnering with local NGOs to democratize advanced math education for marginalized youth
9. (Math Fellowship): Multi-year scholar at a prestigious national STEM institute; trained in university-level real analysis and abstract algebra under top professors
10. (School Leadership): Math Club President; designed algorithmic infrastructure solutions for school systems and organized large-scale NGO fundraisers

Possible Letters of Recommendation

• Math Teacher (8/10)
• CS Teacher (10/10)
• Math Research Prof. (9/10)

Essays

Writing on a unique topic, might say its 8/10. Taking essay help from mentors.

Colleges

• Stanford
• Harvard
• MIT
• Oxford
• Yale
• Princeton
• UPenn
• Cornell
• Imperial
• Columbia
• Caltech
• Brown
• UC Berkeley

Note: Where should I ED/REA for the maximum chance of acceptance, also my list is too top heavy because I have safeties in other countries, I only want one of these so please recommend a school out of these (or any other school if there is a better match) so I can be done in Early round only. Thanks!

I kinda wanted to get into the ivy League and was doing perfectly until the third quarter in my junior year (I had all As in 10th and got into honor roll till period 2 this year) and then got seizure after seizure, and my teachers didn't want to compromise, quarter 3 led me to have Cs, then in quarter 4 before my ap psych exam (both times) I had a seizure and then when I had the chance to get through 4th quarter not dying, I get horrible chest pains and get to know I have had autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hospitalizing me before my precalculus final, even before that I had to fight a cold with focal seizures so the last units of precalculus go horribly. My ecs as I was planning were going to be volunteering in a hospital, learning French by myself with the stamp test giving me a 4/5 in speaking and 5/6 in writing, learning chess and hopefully reaching 1400 as I started kinda late, getting experience for cooking but couldn't do that since I was not allowed to work here with the h-4 visa so I was going to plan something in the summer. I am dying from the inside as I am seeing people who prepare like hell and considering it as under preparation and the paranoia is making me die from the inside as hope begins getting waterboarded. I get that I can't account for others being better and will try my hardest as it depends on me but it feels kinda like God is targeting me with a sniper every time I get up off my bed, just tell me if I ever even had a chance. It will hurt but I will still try even if the verdict comes that I never had a chance, I took apush, ap psych and lang this year and could get a recommendation letter from everyone of my teachers, will take ap bio and gov this year and have been told to reduce strain unless I want epilepsy for the rest of my life. Kinda poetic that I want to be a neurosurgeon and I get the only gamble where I rest or become epileptic with too much strain permanently disfiguring me .

Background Info:
21, Hispanic/Latino & Jewish, full IB Diploma, ACT 35, prospective Philosophy major, 4.0 GPA or 97 unweighted (top 8% of class)
American applicant with USA passport and citizenship and graduated from an American High School
Will do Stanford REA

ECs: Chose to serve 3 years as an NCO in 8200 after high school in America (Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit with pipelines to elite universities, <1% acceptance rate, kind of like NSA); founded an education platform used by 50k+ students; founded an academic tutoring company tutored 20+ clients and made low five figures and sent around 10-30% to my nonprofit; co-founded that nonprofit I mentioned raising five figures and serving 5,000+ people; founded and president of school economics club; philosophy club president (secretary sophomore year); DECA secretary & ICDC qualifier; BBYO New York State Secretary leading statewide operations; venture capital fellow evaluating startups for a small VC in NY; previous national-level rower, trained with one of the top rowing programs in the U.S., then transitioned to recreational rowing after realizing I would not be recruited at the collegiate level sophomore year.

Honors: Think Essay Competition Top 3 (~750 entrants), John Locke High Commendation (Top 3% of Philosophy), published ambient AI research in the Journal of High School Science, philosophy research with a Rutgers professor (published paper + formal acknowledgment), 3 philosophy op-eds published in Plato’s Journal, and 3rd place Somers Science Fair, ICDC Qualifier (Top 0.5% of Stock Trading Competition)
Open to clarifying any part or adding context if helpful to anything

Story and how it all ties together for me:
My application begins in high school, where I trained in rowing at a high level with one of the top programs in the U.S., before stepping away when I realized I would not be recruited, and shifted my focus toward building and academics. After that, I founded an education platform used by 50,000+ students, created my school’s economics club, and built a tutoring initiative, while also co-founding a nonprofit focused on food access that raised funding and supported thousands of people. These experiences led me to think more seriously about systems, which I explored through economics as a way to understand incentives and philosophy as a way to examine ethics and decision-making. That trajectory continued into my three years of service in Unit 8200, where working in cyber intelligence made those questions real under high-stakes conditions, and I later pursued philosophy research at Tel Aviv University focused on ethics of intelligence and technology, continuing to connect economics, systems thinking, and moral philosophy into a unified framework for understanding human impact.

I am from south Asia. 17F, and will be sending an application by the end of this year.

ACADEMICS

• 93% 10th, 95% 11th, 94-98% 12th (predicted).
• Haven’t given the SAT yet but I am good at maths (highest score 1410 – I am still preparing).
• Current enrolled in one of the toughest programs in my country.
• I rank in the top 5% of my grade.
• letter of recs from my school headmaster, class teacher, art teacher.

ECs

• Founded a Crochet and Art business with 5k followers and 50+ sales.
• Interned at a Jewellery company (diamonds) as their social media manager.
• Interned at a Youth-Led Organisation’s pr team (helped grow followers to 2k)
• Tutored 5 kids when I was in 9th and 11th, each of them achieved 90%+ in their grades.
• Organised, tracked LED display in theatre and made a powerpoint presentation for a play-school’s annual day
• Freelance video editing
• currently writing a research paper (hope to publish it)
• sold multiple paintings

AWARDS

• Received a certificate of merit from my board for scoring 100/100 in Art
• Won an international art competition 3 years in a row (3 gold)
• Won $50 in a poetry competition
• Second place in poster making competition, received an award from the chief of my state
• Best delegate, verbal mentions, best commendation in multiple muns
• Declamation 1st place two years in a row (school- over 100 participants) and once intra school (~250 participants)
• There might be more that i’m missing… though i can’t remember anything for now 😭

For now this is it.
ik it seems like im not much of an academic weapon but i am a science student i just haven’t won any awards in the field… i am good at writing essays so hope that saves me.

Thanks for reading!

Hey can any international student who got into an ivy or other top uni share their experience?

Demographics: Asian-American Male (CA resident in Bay Area (Nepali)), Public High School

Intended Major(s): Political Science / International Relations

ACT/SAT/SAT II: Haven't taken yet ( Will do soon, and am prepping !! )

UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0 UW / No idea what my weighted is / School doesnt rank Sophomores so no clue what my rank is until start of Junior year...

Coursework: AP world History and Precalc(AP Calc next year!!) (only can take one AP Sophomore year sadly). (Will take more APs/Dual Enrollment next year).

Hooks: First-Generation College Student

Awards:

1. State Senate Certificate of Recognition: Awarded for dedicated civic service and impactful work with my local city's Parks and Recreation department.
2. City Council Commendation(City of Oakland, not my home city): Recognized as a outstanding contributions to the city's cultural vibrancy and fostering multicultural engagement.
3. PiE Competition: 1st and 2nd Place winner with my team at UC Berkeley with our robots.

Extracurriculars (Keeping it niche since a lot of ppl from my school are here lol) :

1. Research Intern w/ a prestigious public university (T10) professor: Working directly with a professor on research regarding international relations.
2. Founder & President of an International Education Non-Profit: Founded and lead an organization providing English education to orphaned children in Nepal in an underprivileged area (in which I am fluent of the language and am able to assist along with peers). Designed custom curriculums and recruited/trained a team of 30+ student-teachers to educate 30+ students while managing logistics and fundraising.
3. Appointed City Advisory Committee Member: Selected to serve on my city's first comprehensive General Plan update committee in over 25 years. Review draft policies, provide feedback on land-use/development scenarios, and act as a liaison between the city government and the public.
4. Legal Intern at a local Law Firm: Assisting with various immigration legal processes (visas, asylum applications). Helped with permanent residency/naturalization proceedings before USCIS and immigration courts.
5. Summer Fellowships/Academies: Accepted into YIP Fellowship, Norman Mineta Academy, and AAMPLIFY for Asian youths (legit just got accepeted so I'm doing these over this summer)
6. Vice President of Robotics: Manage operations and leadership for my school's robotics team as well as overseeing the robotics programs of 3 elementary schools and one middle school in our city.
7. Varsity Athlete (2 sports): Play two varsity sports (Waterpolo and Tennis). Dedicate 12+ hours every week outside of school to practice and competition (during season).
8. Speech & Debate / Mock Trial: Active competitor and member of my school's debate and mock trial teams.
9. Community Service Club Volunteer: Volunteered a total of 90+ hours from Freshman and Sophomore year.

Essays/LORs/Other: Haven't written essays yet. Considering I have strong relationships with my city officials, my research professor, and the attorneys I intern for, I expect my LORs to be incredibly strong when its time. I already have a strong relation with my counselor and her rec letter was a factor for me getting into YIP fellowship.

Thank you for reading, I truly appreciate it and leaving a comment really would make my day :)

Are you between 16 and 19 years old?

Do you dream of studying in the US or the UK at a top university such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, or other highly prestigious universities?

I'm looking for a small group of ambitious students to create Instagram group where we can share opportunities, scholarships, summer programs, application tips, and support each other throughout the journey.

This group is for students who are serious about: • Scholarships and financial aid • SAT / IELTS / TOEFL • Extracurricular activities • Summer programs • Applying to universities in the US and the UK

If this sounds like you, send me a message with:

Your age

Your country

Your dream university (or universities)

The goal is to build a community of students with similar ambitions who can motivate and help each other achieve their goals.

For the people of Asia and Africa

This is me someone from _ country.

I am 16yo M. Also i have 1.5 years for my submitting my application. Not gonna waste time get to my achievements.

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Startup was around Ai for education. Our startup get dead because of trust and distribution.

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So what u think ?? ... guys yall can give some tips about essay as well and can also give feedbacks.

Hey everyone!,I need some advice (considering the fact that i know nothing about how to apply to unis here because systems are different)

So here's a little bit about me :

I'm Algerian, I'm 17 years old, I just finished my junior year of high school and wanna study uni abroad especially in the top tier unis, but looking at our economy it's impossible to do it while still having all your organs inside of you :'), so I'm all dependent on scholarships, but the problem is I don't know anything about the precedures needed to apply and the qualifications and whatever activities rise your chances

So here's what I think is useful to know (ask me if I didn't mention some important details) :

I'm trilingual (I'm native arabic speaker,C1 in english, and good in frensh but didn't do a test lol)

I'm great at school work (I was the valedictorian throughout the middle school and high school and hopefully next year), I've participated and have certificates in a lot of competitions (math olympiad, robotics, reading and summary, studies competitions...), I do some club sports (I used to do volleyball and boxing and I've won some turnamonts and now I'm doing handball and running)

I have some skills like programming and graphic design...

Any advices on how to apply to scholarships/training programs?

And how do I get my chances higher?

Thank you all <3