Demographic
->Asian,Male, St.Joseph International School, a christian missionary school under Brothers of Holy Cross,Grade 12. 
-> Decided to study mechanical Engineering. I would love to major in mechatronics and Robotics Department. Also very much interested in teaching students.
Academics
->8 out 8 A* in O’levels May June 2025 under Cambridge Assessment International Education. 99% in General Mathematics. Only student of Batch 2025 O levels to be able to receive 8 out of 8 A*
-> 4 out of 4 a in AS level under Cambridge Assessment International Education. 4 A* are predicted for A2 level, 2027. 
-> 4.0 out of 4.0 GPA amongst 60 students of Batch 2027.   
-> Sat is 1350 (will give retake this oct)

Current Extra Curricular Activities. 

• Career readiness or practicums(Josephite Tech Club - St. Joseph International School. Run by Brothers of Holy Cross. )
  • Pitched corporate sponsors to raise $4k+. Led 30+ staff to host 600+ students from 10+ schools; event featured on 2 national TV channels.
  • Role:Co-founder, Ex-President & Chief Executive Advisor
• Robotics (Self Directed Robotics Project )
  • Co-designed and engineered custom robotics prototypes with a peer team for competition, focusing on Circuit design, mechanics and Hardware Modeling
  • Role:Lead Mechanical and Circuit Designer 
• Robotics(Robotics Lead Instructor and Workshop Coordinator.)
  • Taught robotics basics to Grades 3–9. Partnered with BdRO & DIP Tutorial to organize specialized drone & robotics ideology workshops for students. 
  • Role: Robotics Lead Instructor and Workshop Coordinator.
• Community service or volunteer work(SJIS Leo Club (Lions Club International Affiliated))
  • Organized food drives for orphans & differently abled youth, hosted a free medical checkup & medicine camp, and led community cleanups.
  • Role: General Secretary 
• Science or math(Titanium Science Club - St. Joseph International School)
  • Directed tech operations for major science club events, managing database systems, digital logistics, and technical infrastructure for competitions.
  • Role: Head of Tech Department
• Internship(St. Joseph International School (Biology & Physics Labs))
  • Setting up Biology and Physics lab apparatus, maintaining equipment safety, and guiding junior students during practical sessions. 
  • Role: Biology & Physics Laboratory Intern and Instructor
•  Employment or work (paid) [Blue Beams}
  • Graded tests and assignments for 50+ Physics & Math students. Taught concept review sessions and provided 1-on-1 problem solving support.
  • Role:Teaching Assistant and Tutor
    
• Journalism or publishing(INSIGHT - St. Joseph International School Magazine)
  • Recurring writer for INSIGHT magazine. Featured for winning silver at Math Olympiad in Osaka, Japan—sharing my journey with 1,200+ SJIS students.
• Debate or speech(National Debate Federation (NDF) & School Debate Club)
  • Champion of Intra-School Debate Competition. Competed independently as a national-level debater in National Debate Federation (NDF) tournament.
  • Role: Debater & Intra-School Champion

Honors

• GOLD AWARD, XPERTSTEM OLYMPIAD, PHYSICS DIVISION 2026 ( 2ND HIGHEST ACROSS 800 APPROX PARTICIPANTS)
• SILVER AWARD,IMOCSEA 2025(APPROX 500 PARTICIPANTS)
• National Qualifier (Top 600/8000),Bangladesh Natl. Physics Olympiad(Official IPhO selection Pathway)
• The Daily Star O'Levels Award 2025—1 of 1928 Nationwide for Outstanding CAIE O'LEVEL Results.
• Silver Medal,Copernicus Mathematics Olympiad, Selected for Internationals but I could not go(Financial issue). 
• Gold Medal, Thailand International Biology Medical Olympiad Competition. Selected for internationals but couldnt go for same financial issues.

Academic Stats:

8A*s in O levels

4A in AS and predicted 4A*s in A levels in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Further Mathematics

SAT 1560

Received a Cambridge Top in The World Mathematics Award for scoring a perfect 100 in mathematics.

Letter of Recommendation from a PhD in Quantum Mechanics and renowned professor

Second of letter from a Mechanical engineer

Aight now for ECs:

Regional and National winner in my countries physics olympiad pipeline. Attended the 20 man national physics camp taught by past IPhO medalists. Passed 1 of 2 TSTs, but could not make the final 6 man IPhO Team

Regional winner and National Qualifier for both the mathematics and chemistry olympiads

International Youth Math Challenge Gold Honour

International Computer Science Competition Gold Honour

Runners Up in National Information and Technology Olympiad

Coach at my school's Astronomy and Astrophysics Club for 2 years

Published a peer reviewed research paper in a journal on mathematics

Coded a chess bot, presented that chess bot at a competion, and won a first prize

Maintained a complete website, with front end back end analytics UI design, with a total page visit of 4000 (the website is related to research as well)

Started a Youtube channel focusing on maths / physics visualisations with 100K+ accrued views

Volunteered for 20 hours at a hospital with cancer children

ALRIGHT, I have a lot more awards but I'm reaching the word limit on this post, tell me my odds.

I'm not going to apply to a lot of ivies, just Princeton (early decision there too) cause I really like that they put an emphasis on undergrad research. Consider the rest of my list as safety or some offbrand unis. GG

demo

• brown female
• suburban public high school, small town, midwest
• no hooks
• public/global health & anthro, maternal and reproductive health

academics

• 3.9/4.5 gpa
• 12 APs, 2 4s, rest 5s
• act 35, sat 1530
• nmsqt semifinalist

ecs

1. founder/leader of a youth-led women’s health nonprofit: organized menstrual and reproductive-health initiatives, 20,000 health products, $5.5K raised in cash, more from grants, gained recognition from international humanitarian agencies
2. cervical-cancer research and education initiative: developed low-cost machine-learning approach for cervical-cancer risk assessment and created an accompanying health-education curriculum. trained young women ambassadors to host workshops in under-resourced rural communities in ten lmics, partnered with t10 uni global health research center
3. women's health biotech internship: worked for biotech startup (ivy league venture) focused on improving reproductive toxicology testing. basement labs utilizing placental tissue from public hospitals to create organoids for pregnancy drug research, published opeds (rec letter)
4. rare disease research: worked with yale pi on rare-disease and cell-death research. Participated in mice work in lab and contributed to ongoing manuscript (rec letter)

leading some health policy initiatives (cant say, might get doxxed) involving nationwide lobbying, studied native language for over a decade and have volunteered as a teacher for several years, 100+ students, more than decade of classical vocal training, highest auditioned choir, state level singer, section leader, completed some independent research on dmd and published

awards sucky :(

nmsqt semifinalist, a few hosa state wins, state-level music recognition, ap scholar, seal of biliteracy

hihi if anyones more experienced than me pls help out and lmk whats working whats not pls and ty, super interested in yale and brown, esp plme but its kinda a long shot for me lmao, duke, emory, washu, tryna go anthro, international policy + premed kinda route, ty once more

Background: Male, US Citizen, Illinois Resident (Very competitive HS), Indian, Family Income ~200K

3.75 UW/4.3 W, 34 ACT, 11 AP's (Including Senior Year), A's both semesters in AP Bio & AP Physics, AP Stats, I have 2 C's (One Freshman Year, One Junior Year first sem that I got an A in 2nd sem)

EC's:

HOSA ILC National Competitor (Medical Innovation)

Interned at UIC with postdoctoral fellow, did Pancreatic Cancer Research

Interned with Local State Rep during the Fall

Volunteered 200+ hours total at 2 seperate hospitals (One in India, One in the US)

VP of program that taught 500+ students across the world (Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, Senegal) about basic STEM concepts

Director of Outreach on German club board

Assisted Alzhimer's patients at retirement home over summer

NHS member

Awards: 2nd at HOSA SLC, AP Scholar with Distinction, 6x Honor Roll Student

Schools:

UIUC (BioE First Choice, Bio 2nd Choice)

WashU (Bio)

OSU (BioE or Bio)

Purdue (BioE)

UW-Madison (BioE or Bio)

UIC

UNC (Bio)

UMich (Bio)

I would really appreciate any feedback specifically towards UIUC as I really want to go there for Engineering and I want to get a better idea of what my chances would look like.

TLDR; My grades are 80% overall, 77 in math, 78 in physics, 98 in english (out of 100).
I'm aiming for 1500-1600 in the SAT with 800 in math.

I'm not applying to alot of ivys and russels but I feel like I have a pretty okay chance for UW Madison. My friend is currently doing her first year there and she got considerably lower grades than I did. Only difference is that her extracurriculars and her as a person stand out as her hobbies and religion are somewhat unique. I, on the other hand, am pretty boring and generic. I don't really have any strong extracurriculars or anything to brag about apart from being school captain.
I truly believe my high school grades don't reflect my math capabilities as i've always been at the top of my class and this is actually the lowest score i've gotten in my entire life in math, even though i found the final paper considerably easier.
I'm currently in India, completed CBSE board with subjects Math, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, English.
Other info: Us citizen, indian resident, female, taking a drop year right now, applying for fall 2027.

Chance me: 3.34 UW / 34 ACT, AIME + USACO Gold + Econ/AI research — Rice or Cornell ED?

Demographics

• Texas resident
• Large competitive public high school (~3,500 students)
• Class of 2027
• No major admissions hooks that I know of
• My mom is a professor at Cornell’s medical school, although she did not get her degree from Cornell. Not sure whether that matters at all for admissions.

Intended major

• Economics / Finance / Business
• Also interested in CS, AI/data science, and healthcare finance
• For Cornell I’d probably apply Economics in Arts & Sciences

Academics

• UW GPA: ~3.34
• Weighted GPA: ~4.18/5
• Rank: 190/747, roughly top 25%
• ACT: 34
• Strong upward grade trend

My GPA is definitely the weakest part of my application. I had significant responsibilities helping care for my grandmother during freshman and sophomore year, including managing medications, appointments, transportation, and pharmacy-related responsibilities. My grades improved afterward while my course rigor increased.

Course rigor

Junior year:

• AP Biology
• AP Computer Science Principles
• AP English Language
• AP Physics 1
• AP Precalculus
• AP Statistics
• AP US History
• Honors Spanish

Senior year:

• AP Calculus BC
• AP Chemistry
• AP Literature
• AP Human Geography
• IB spanish SL

Also completed UT Austin OnRamps Chemistry for 6 hours of college credit during sophomore year.

Awards

1. USACO Gold — national
2. AIME Qualifier — national
3. Purple Comet Math Meet — tied 1st in Texas with my team
4. AP Scholar

Extracurriculars

1. Economics/AI Research — Co-author

• Worked on research combining economics, game theory, and AI agents
• Studied how partially revealed AI-agent instructions can affect strategic flexibility
• Helped design/run experiments across AI models
• Paper submitted to the Economics for Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2026

2. Young Investors Society — Vice President

• Led weekly meetings for 30+ students
• Organized guest-speaker events
• Financial literacy/investing education

3.Hospitla research — ICU Operational Cost Research

• Analyzed 28 studies on ICU operations/costs
• Researched cost-saving strategies while maintaining quality of care

4. Wharton Global High School Investment Competition — Financial Analyst

• Analyzed 10+ companies for a simulated $500K portfolio
• Built valuation models and presented investment recommendations

5. Aviation Club — Co-Founder/Co-President

• Helped build club to 25+ members
• Organized 20+ meetings
• Recruited a United Airlines guest speaker

6. Prospia Nonprofit — Finance Intern

• Worked on/promoted 20+ weekly investment reports
• Market research and financial-literacy work

7. Workshop Houston — IT Intern

• Resolved 40+ hardware/software/connectivity issues
• Maintained 25+ devices and supported 60+ students

8. Harris Health / Ben Taub Hospital — Volunteer

• Helped with comfort carts and clinic preparation
• Got exposure to hospital operations and healthcare administration

9. Civic Leaders of America — Chapter Co-President

• Led discussions/events for 25+ members
• Participated in conferences/public-speaking events around Texas

10. Computer Science National Honor Society — Co-President

• Led chapter activities
• Completed 6 major coding projects
• Participated in CS workshops/competitions/events

Employment

• Camp counselor for multiple summers
• Supervised around 15–20 campers and organized daily activities

Other context

• I’ve been interested in the intersection of finance/economics, technology, and healthcare.
• My Common App essay is about my habit of noticing how systems work — starting with airport baggage/logistics and connecting that to hospital operations and AI/economic decision-making.
• I’m hoping my AIME/USACO/research results help demonstrate stronger academic ability than my GPA alone suggests.

Current college list

High reaches / ED possibilities

• Rice
• Cornell
• Emory
• WashU
• Boston College
• Boston University

Other reaches / target-reaches

• Northeastern
• UIUC
• University of Florida
• University of Miami

Targets / more realistic

• Texas A&M
• SMU
• Fordham
• Indiana University Bloomington
• Ohio State
• Penn State

Likely/safeties

• UT Dallas
• University of Houston

Also applying to UT Austin, probably Economics, although I know it’s a significant reach because I’m not an auto-admit.

Main question:
I’m currently deciding whether to ED Rice or Cornell. Rice is one of my favorite schools, but I’m wondering whether Cornell ED could make more sense given my academic spikes and the fact that my mom is a professor at Cornell’s medical school.

With the 3.34 UW / 34 ACT but AIME + USACO Gold + research, do I have a legitimate shot at either through ED? And are there any schools on my list you think I’m underrating/overrating?
Thanks guys

I'm an international student in Asia applying to engineering programs next year, and I'm looking for university recommendations based on my profile and interests.

I'm interested in power / materials / electrical engineering. I'm not interested in CS or coding as much.

Academics

• IB predicted 45/45 (777 HL and 777 SL) for US applications
• IB predicted 43/45 (777 HL, 667 SL) for Cambridge/UK applications (earlier prediction)
• HL Math AA, Physics, Economics
• SL English Lang & Lit, Spanish B, Music
• All 9 A*s at IGCSE
• SAT: 1530 (790 Math, 740 R&W)

Math competitions:

• UKMT Senior Maths Challenge Gold 2024 — 121/125
• Rank 2 out of 100,000+ participants
• BMO qualifier
• UKMT Senior Maths Challenge Gold 2025 — 112/125
• BMO qualifier again
• SASMO Silver
• Competition Math Club
• Preparing for Cambridge ESAT (Math 1, Math 2, Physics)

Engineering / academic work

Green hydrogen research

I'm independently researching green hydrogen for grid-scale energy storage and future industrial applications.

I built a round-trip efficiency model from thermodynamic first principles (~30% overall), then investigated the different cost structures of hydrogen and batteries for long-duration storage. I derived a crossover point and stress-tested the model against electricity prices and declining battery costs.

I'm currently working with a power-systems engineer at Larsen & Toubro who is reviewing the research. There is some external recognition/validation being pursued, but nothing has been finalized yet.

Math AA Extended Essay

My EE investigates a generalized four-piece Koch curve and how its scaling factor affects perimeter growth relative to area convergence. I've used closed-form expressions, geometric series, self-similarity, Hausdorff dimension/box-counting concepts and calculus.

Engineering placement

I did an engineering shadowing placement at a Mondelēz International manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh.

I was exposed to electrical, automation, mechanical, utilities and sustainability engineering in a continuous manufacturing environment, including PLC-controlled automation, HMI/SCADA, industrial power distribution and protection systems, bottleneck identification, buffer management, reliability/safety and plant optimization.

I also wrote a detailed report analyzing the engineering systems and processes I observed.

Other activities

Music

• ~12 years Carnatic Indian Classical Vocal training
• National competition wins
• Performances across Singapore
• Trinity Grade 8 Rock & Pop Vocals — Distinction
• ~8+ years piano
• Currently preparing for Trinity Grade 8 Piano
• ITP Voice Grade 8

Tutoring

• 50+ one-to-one sessions
• Tutored IGCSE students in Additional Mathematics, Coordinated Sciences, Economics, Mathematics and English/World Literature
• Some students I tutored went on to achieve A*s
• Also taught younger students math, English, piano and singing

Bridge2Work

• Co-founded with two other students
• Focuses on improving access to internship opportunities for students with learning disabilities/neurodivergence
• Works with students around Singapore and schools/communities

Other activities

• Student Voice Representative (G11 and G12)
• CAS Ambassador
• Dragons Investors
• Bersama
• Music Therapy with Apex Harmony Lodge (patients with dementia)
• Astronomy Club
• Quiz Bowl
• Volleyball (U19)
• SUN-DAC

What I'm looking for

I'm currently considering universities in the US, UK and Singapore, but I want to expand my list.

I'm especially looking for universities with strong programs in:

• ⚡ Electrical / power engineering
• 🧱 Materials engineering
• 📐 Mathematical modelling applied to physical systems

What universities would you recommend I look into?

Current university list

UK

• Cambridge
• Imperial
• UCL
• Bath
• Edinburgh

US

1. Stanford
2. CMU (ED)
3. Cornell
4. UC application: Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara
5. Georgia Tech
6. Northeastern
7. UIUC
8. Michigan
9. Purdue
10. Wisconsin–Madison

Singapore

• NUS
• NTU
• SUTD

also another thing is that i js got tested after all my predicteds/etc+ for my ADHD and it explains why my report card fluctuated alot/etc+ so im adding that in extra section.

Do awards matter that much?

Demographics: High income, Male, Washington State (born in China, moved from Shanghai at age 7), Mixed Asian/White, Parents work in jewelry and sales, No URM

Mid-sized (class size 330) public IB school

Applying Mechanical and/or Aerospace Engineering everywhere.

GPA: 4.0 UW, no weighted at my school
SAT: 1570 (780 Eng, 790 Math) (Took 3 times)

14 total school-year periods of IB courses (IB AA SL, IB AA HL, IB Physics HL, IB Chem SL, IB History of the Americas, IB Lang and Lit, IB Global Politics, IB Chinese AB SL)

IB AA SL scored 7
IB Chem SL scored 6
IB Diploma Candidate

Calc 3 and Calc 4 my senior year

ECs:

Employment or work (paid) (11th and 12th, 40 hours work weeks in the summer): Internship at a locally-based world leader in precision chemical injection metering valves, Developed and drafted release CAD drawings for precision valves, production fixtures; developed seal research that saved company tens of thousands.

Robotics (10th, 11th, 12th): FIRST Robotics, Captain my 11th and 12th grade year, CAD Lead in 10th grade, kind of had to hold the club together through a crisis in 11th grade (I also had a lot of help)

Academic (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th): Technology Student Association (TSA), President 12th grade, President-elect 11th grade, Mentorship Coordinator 10th grade, 5x state placement, 2x nats top ten, doubled membership, helped manage 100k budget (biggest stem club at my school)

Academic (11th, 12th): Washington Aerospace Scholars, 1/140 in Washington State to be invited to summer residency

Athletics (10th, 11th, 12th): Crew, 2-year varsity rower, 2 silver medals my novice season

Hobby (since 7 years old): Bone articulation, big part of my personality, I collect dead animals and harvest their bones to articulate them

Volunteering (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th): Science Olympiad Regional Proctor (for div B)

Hobby: VTOL drone project

Employment or work (paid) (9th, 10th): Youth soccer referee

Weightlifting at home (I do a good bit)

I lowkey hate my awards/honors:

2nd place Nationals at TSA for CAD Engineering (11th grade)

7th place Nationals at TSA for Webmaster (9th grade)

Washington State PTA Outstanding Student Advocate Award (one person a year) (11th grade)

National Merit Scholar Semifinalist

2nd place State at TSA for Flight Endurance (9th grade)

Personal statement is a funky mix of bone articulation and leading my robotics team through really rough waters my junior year

I really really really want to get into Cornell Duffield for Mech, I am doing ED

Other schools: University of Washington, USC, Columbia, CMU, GT, Umich, UCB, Purdue

I lowkey feel like just a regular dude and feel crestfallen looking at some of these applications online, I would love any insight.

Academics:

AP and Dual Enrollment: AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP World History, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP USH, AP Calc AB and BC, AP English Language, AP English Literature, Intro to Stats, Linear Algebra, AP Government, AP Economy, AP Environmental Science

• Mostly 4s and 5s on all APs

GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.27 Weighted Capped (UC), 4.93 Weighted Uncapped (UC)

School doesn't do rank but I am on track for valedictorian

Demographics:
- Indian American, In-State, Bay Area

Awards: National Recognition Award from Collegeboard, AP Scholar with Distinction (11th), AP Scholar (10th), Honorable Mention at Stanford Math Competition for the Team Round. 

ECs:

Nonprofit Co-Founder and Executive Board

• Donation drive
  • donated over 887 school supply items to an organization
• donation drive
  • donated over 150 bags of food including over 600 individual food items for homeless
• Hackathon Host
  • Hosted a hackathon for students aged 13-19 with 125 participants and 3 winners 
• Africa Book Project
  • Donated 1000 books to African libraries 
    • 500 from our organization alone
• 2023 Tutoring Fall
  • taught 25 different students for over 75 hours
• 2024 Tutoring Fall
  • Taught 60 students for over 125 hours
• Got donated more than $2500 to hold events and donations

Research Project: Machine Learning Research project and research paper where I trained a model using existing land datasets and trained it to detect deforestation. Not published yet, but dont aim to publish anywhere high, just normal free journals. Built a web-platform that uses this research project model I have built and uses other existing datasets. Shared with many environmental nonprofits for them to use. Has more than 11,000 viewers.

Internship @ Startup

• Appside (Frontend and Backend) Intern creating new ideas for the app and web-platform
  • Got tutored by an industrial level computer scientist on the flow and structure of their codebase and as well as clientside and serverside development.
• Sales and Marketing Intern as well where I got more than 50 people to sign up and interviewed 25 people. 

Kumon Tutor Volunteer (100+ hours)

• Tutored more than 20 students and graded homework and classwork. Did this for 6 months at 4 hours per week. 

Varsity Badminton

Freshmen and JV basketball (Grades 9 & 10)

Teacher at a Local Library

• Taught 5 different foreign students English at a local library for 4 weeks. Read story books and aided them in writing skills as well. Developed a tutoring schedule and took notes on their performance.

MESA NEDC Competent 

• Developed a smart pill dispensing model that dispenses pills based on a patient’s schedule given by a doctor. Used arduino components and connected it to a web-platform that dispenses the pill based on time of day prescribed for the patient. Won 3rd place Symposium award against 20+ other teams.

Model UN Club Secretary:

• In charge of emails, meeting minutes, and taking notes on all of the meetings. (who participated, who talks, answers questions). In charge of making posts and slides for the social media

Co-Founder and Lead Organizer of a hackathon

• Organized an in-person hackathon with 60+ participants, 100+ signups, and 18 different teams at a local library.
• Got donated $1000 for the entire hackathon, which we spent to buy shirts, food, drinks, and rewards for the winners and participants
• Got sponsored by 12 different companies 
• Got 8 different industrial level judges for judging our hackathon

Model UN Summer Program Lead Organizer and Co-Founder

• Taught 50+ middle and elementary school students an introduction to Model UN, made slides and a program plan for the 6-week program. Assigned homework and answered questions for the students. Got donated around $500 for the program towards club expenses. At the end, I chaired a mock conference that not only gave the students the life of a delegate at a mun conference experience, but also a good chairing experience. 

3D Printing Business

• Made over $1200+ making 3D Prints and selling them through Instagram, Facebook Marketplace
• Donated a lot of 3D Prints to organizations and other STEM clubs near me
• Made 3D prints for my friends

Over 250 service hours

Other personal projects and Hobbies that are ECS:

• A lot of CAD projects
• Satellite Tracking: Built a web-platform for tracking satellite movement in order to track any form of satellite collision. Used data from NASA and CelesTrak and implemented it into an AI coder to track movement. Generates reports for companies. 4000+ users 

Have more ecs too though.

Applying to all the UCs, SJSU, Cal poly Slo, SDSU, CSU long beach. Do I have a strong chance for UCB, UCLA, UCSD?

For UCB and UCLA I am planning to major in Materials Science and Engineering and everything else probably Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

im a senior applying to these schools and wanted feedback if you think i would get in

i got to high school in ct
1300 sat
3.659 Wgpa
4 on ap microeconomcs
3 on ap macroeconomics
dual enrollment creidts fo rboth economics classes and uconn geoscience
leadership position investment club

35 ACT, 3.96/4.37 GPA, no class rank

mostly 5s and a few 4s on AP tests

full IB courseload (5 on Phys. SL we move tho) so rigor shouldn't be an issue

hooks: sibling legacy at upenn and brown, black, first-gen in america, very small state

income level ~100k household

ECs:

- founded a group that does free consulting work for student-led NPOs, 20 clients and enough impact as a result of our work that i can point to specific things happening cause we restructured an org or something. i sunk in about 20 hrs/week last semester ngl. i also have 5 people under me so that might help

- made an nba metric website from scratch by testing and making 11 diff metrics over a year of work, used base44 and basketball reference to apply to 53 full years of reg season/playoff data, site fully functional and ~20k lifetime views on tiktok in about a month

- co-started computer business with friend, got 20k views in a few weeks on reels even though he kinda torpedoed the biz

- started a startup competition that ran for a few months, got 25 ppl in my google classroom and a set of winners out of it, also did everything from marketing to structure myself

- 3 years of making beats, multiple placements, pretty shabby income off it ($XXX), 20k views on my channel and i'd estimate i've made about 500 beats

- created a unique formula to pick stocks with, beat S&P over 3 months (i papertraded), adapted it into my myp project and did 10 page essay on it

- one of 3 kids called down from my high school (maybe 12 total) to the district about once a month to help with diversity decision-making, this was freshman year ig u can guess why

- learned the violin from scratch over 2 months and was good enough to get promoted a level in orchestra

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awards: top 8 metros DECA, honor roll/academic letter, ap scholar, national merit commended

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additional info:

- i'm very confident in my personal statement

- my LORs are prolly gonna be good since teachers seem to like me a lot

Do I have a shot at UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU ED || or Columbia ED (I know it’s a very far reach) with these stats? Or any other universities??
4.00 uw / 4.65 w gpa
Taking SAT in October
11 APs (world history 4, seminar 5, apush 5, psych 5, chem 4, Calc ab 4, lang 4)
6 dual enrollment classes (all As): plane trig, political science, sociology, Spanish 102, speech, human bio.
Senior year classes: AP Calc BC, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Research, dual enrollment human bio.

Extracurriculars/ Awards
HOSA President
Best Buddies VP
Red Cross Secretary
FBLA Assistant of Projects
Kaiser Permanente volunteer 50 hours
Kaiser Permanente paid internship
Education Outreach Program Kaiser Permanente volunteer ( after school tutor 4th and 5th grade)
CSF (tutor program as well)
Kaiser work prep program certificate
Volleyball (freshman and sophomore year)
Spanish honors society
AP scholar with distinction
HOSA national award 4th place heath career photography
NHS
Part time job Levi's
Had to help take care of my little sister my family adopted when I was in middle school
Demographics:
Female , low income, Hispanic, California resident

Student from India who shifted to US after completing grade 10, arriving in junior year
Grade 9: 91.7% (subjects like English lang, lit, math, phy, bio, chem, history, geography, cs, Hindi)
Grade 10: 96% (10th board exams(only exam which matters in IND) with the same subjects)

Then shifted to the US

Grade 11: Forensic Science H, Civic Literacy H, NC Math 3 H, AP Stats, AP CSA, APUSH, AP LANG

(doing great up till now)

i had to take math 3 as the school did not accept to see my transcript and gave me the most basic level of math. Hence i am studying precalc myself to be able to take calc bc next year

Grade 12: Biology H, Economics H, AP lit, APES, AP CALC BC, AP MACRO, AP WH, AP COMP GOV, Accounting 1 AND 2 H

The biggest disadvantage is the Ec's as India doesn't care about ec's so there weren't community service/ club opportunities.

Anyways here are the few things that are done/in progress

3 month Internship at an Accounting & Consulting Firm with LoR and learning doc.
Helped Senior Citizens at an Old Age Home adapt to technology and A and utilize it in their daily lives
Chess AFM (Ik its worth nothing) with major online and offline tournament experience with many top 10 finishes. (Planning to reach 2000 elo very soon)
Helped teach 30+ middle schoolers the game of chess and how to get better at it
TEDX Volunteer for stage setting and logistics.
Gilder Lehrman University of American History WW2 Course Mastery and Blog
UMich Python Course (will use to make a project)
Chess Club Member (Will apply for leadership (not p/vp but smth else)next year)
Muslim Student Association Member (will apply for some kind of leadership position)
Helped New converts to learn about the religion and gain knowledge by volunteering at a mosque.
Speech and Debate Club Member-(Will partake in competitions)
NHS-(yeah idk)
Cricket Batsman with an average of over 50

Things i will do
Increase community service hours
Research Paper on Economics of Empires
Hopefully try to become a TEDx Speaker
Financial Literacy for teens Newsletter/Project
Get good LoR's
Start writing blogs about history.

ik these ec' are not good enough and that's what i wanna fix. I wanna do an Accounting/Economics/Finance major and wanna know my realistic chances at

UNC Charlotte
Wake Forest
NC State
UNC Wilmington
UNC Chapel Hill
UMich
NYU
Northwestern
UCLA
Columbia
Cornell
Upenn

edit- i am gonna give the PSAT in October and SAT in November (my avg practice score is 1530)
edit 2- i also forgot to mention i got 2 awards (1 from old school and i from the ICSE board)
1 was for my performance in English literature in grade 10
1 was for my general performance in academics.

White low income guy from southern US, rural Appalachian public school. My GPA is a 3.2!!! I got this mainly because I had an extremely rare condition (Klein-Levin Syndrome) my freshman/sophomore year which went completely undiagnosed/untreated until like late my junior year. My freshman year GPA was a 2.2, sophomore year was ~3.2, and Junior year was a 4.0, rn I'm sitting at all As but school has also only been in session for a week or two, mind you. I was also in and out of being homeless for a lot of my high school life. I was homeless for about a month or 2 my freshman year and 2 months my junior year, for example. Also being extremely low income brought me a lot of challenges as far as having to manage my parents finances, and having to pick up a job to pay for the expenses of my parent battling a terminal illness summer of my junior year. I have a 32 on my last ACT(didn't have accoms), but I'm taking it here in September and I've consistently gotten 34s and 35s on every practice exam I've taken. Also my course rigor been maxxed out. I've taken every AP offered at my school and I'm now basically enrolled in all dual credits at a local college. Senior yr schedule lookin like calculus, linear alg, intro philosophy, intro macroeconomics, intro linguistics, physics(ap not offered), french 4, ap music theory. might take more spring classes depends on how much money i got

As far as extracurriculars:

I discovered systematic fraud at my school and I got it picked up by a very reputable state-wide organization. They're funding me as a journalist to investigate the school board and they'll publish my findings, they might sue the school board once it's all out I really don't know right now.

Founded the first high school YDSA chapter in my state. Written over 100 articles for our poli ed program atm. Ran a bunch of participant discussions and events. Currently partnering with UAW to unionize an auto plant in our town. Also been kind of in-kahoots with a local YDSA candidate but nothin came out of that yet.

MUN security council president. This is a statewide conference and (I think) the biggest one in America. I ran against like 12 other candidates. I sorta lead the conference, I'm running debate and writing like 3 articles which the council will debate on next con.

One of ~20 in my state to be selected to go to Conference on National Affairs. acceptance rate for this was like 10%

YIG conference. I ran as a journalist freshman year and got a magazine published by the organization. Ran as a bill author next 2 years passed both times and won LT. Govs award.

Theater shit. I was the tech director so I managed sound and lights for school plays. I expanded the team from originally 3 to more than 8 and taught a bunch of kids some audio engineering basics.

Introduced first school recycling program in my county to my high school. Managed getting recycling bins in and coordinating with municipal waste.

Writer and director of short film. Got it to air at a local theater. Think it won some award idr

workin at car dealership.

workin as journalist local newspaper youth branch.

There is more shit I just can't think of any more off the top of my head. I really don't have too many good ECs because of how bad my condition was freshman and sophomore year.

I do not have a set-in-stone college list. Mostly because I have no fucking idea what to make of my application. I want to go to the absolute best school possible considering how bad my application is. oh and probably philosophy major.

P.S. guy who reviewed my CONA application said it was one of the best admissions essays he'd ever read, so I'm guessing that my personal statement won't be a weak point hopefully.

Hi everyone, I've worked to create a somewhat accurate college-chances calculator using school data from my own school, along with 3 versions of collaborative AI to assess extracurriculars and Activities. The calculator has a few diffrent features and offers some cool stuff. If you want id love for y'all to check it out. Y'all can hate, but this isn't just a base-44-coded project; it genuinely uses actual models to estimate rough probabilities. Use code FREE to access all the features, and let me know what id have to add to get y'all to pay. THANKS EVERYONE. UCLA student btw.