Computer Science Applicant
Male · Asian (South-Asian) · Pennsylvania · Public, suburban high school (1 Ivy league admit per year-ish)
Income: ~$200k
AP Exams Taken
- Research at Local UniversityConducted robotics research at a local university where I worked on computer vision
- Youth GroupPresident and responsible for organizing fundraisers and volunteering events, culturally related
- Mock TrialPresident and organized case materials and theory for the school team as well as competing
- Coding ClubFounded school's coding club and worked with Hack Club to organize events and tutorials with students
- National Honors SocietyPresident and led volunteering and fundraising opportunities with NHS club
- Webmaster for School NewspaperWorked with my school's journalism club to create a website for their newspaper
- Science FairConducted research in the computer science field on my own
- Medically Related ClubPresident and founder, organized field trips and talks with career professionals
- Freshman AdvisoryWas in a club that encouraged school spirit and helped freshman get accommodated to high school
- Principle AdvisoryOrganization I worked with where we would talk with our school principal about advising and high school lab and recommendations. Created AP review book library through the program
- ★2nd Place In Category Event for T5 University's Hackathon
- ★National Merit Commended Scholar
- ★Congressional App Challenge winner for my district
- ★Won Local District Speech Contest
- ★Won First Place in Regional Science Fair in the Computer Science Category
Essay Topics
For my personal statement, I wrote about my time volunteering with a nonprofit that teaches girls computer programming. I talked about how it allowed me to understand what it means to be underrepresented and motivated me to help those underrepresented in my field. I went through about 6 complete re-writes and like 5 other topic ideas before I happened upon this one. I also got it checked by my teachers and other people around me who said they really liked it.
- No interviews were really memorable except for Schreyers because we both did Mock Trial. The only "bad" interviews I had were because I really didn't come prepared with enough questions (like my Cornell and Michigan interview just asked me, "What do you wanna know about the college").
- My best advice for interviews though is to have a master document with all the common questions and to honestly just memorize your responses to them. You're not going to remember 100% of your written out answer but getting 90% of it out is usually good enough.
AP Chemistry Teacher
I worked hard in the class and we had a pretty good connection so I think he would have talked highly of me and my capabilities. I worked a lot with him during COVID to get a good score on the AP test so I was hoping he would appreciate that. I think it would be pretty average so - 7/10
AP Lang and Comp
My class with her was cut short because of COVID but I was effectively able to do well in the class and have a pretty good connection with her. She liked one of the speeches I wrote for the class and I would work with her a lot in preparation for the AP exam so I think she appreciated my work ethic. Still, being a humanities class and a STEM major it would still be a - 7/10
Principal
I had a really good relationship with my principal and knew that he would write recommendation letters based on hearing it from students in previous years. Overall, I think he knew me really well and I think getting a LOR from someone like a principal is pretty impressive especially given my class size so I think it would be an - 8/10
Accepted (7)
Waitlisted (6)
Rejected (8)
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