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Computer ScientistClass of 20203.8+1500+/34+stem
Computer science Applicant
Male · Chinese · MA · public
Income: ~200K+
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
4 (UW)
ACT
36
Class Rank
2/450
AP Courses
4
AP Exams Taken
Computer Science A (5)Statistics (5)APUSH (5)Chemistry (5)
Extracurricular Activities
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology PRIMES researchPredicted receptor-ligand interactions based on chemical structure for better drug targeting/design. Read papers, evaluated existing methods, developed novel deep learning models.
- Science Olympiad team co-captainWrote tests, lectured, selected the team, and planned events. Won Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Brown University, and Yale invitationals; placed top 10 nationally in the past two years.
- Hackathon Organizer of Venue and logisticsFound hackathon venue, organized budget (food, t-shirts, prizes), contacted companies for sponsorships, planned workshops. Raised over $7.5k, ~100 attendees.
- Peer tutoring
- Middle school math club TA
Awards & Honors
- ★2x AIME qualifier
- ★Description: High score of 7.
- ★USACO Gold Division
- ★3x Science Olympiad National medalist
- ★Description: Top-6 placings.
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
Really proud of these. Worked with a college essay service (GreenMark Writing), which helped a ton with ideation and revising.
Yale University — Supplemental
Submitted the rec letter from my mentor but forgot to fill out the rest of the supplement.
Interview Experiences
- Stanford University
- Performance/Outcome: Best.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Performance/Outcome: Best.
- Harvard University
- Performance/Outcome: Best.
- Princeton University
- Performance/Outcome: Really bad.
- Other schools
- Performance/Outcome: Pretty average/good.
Letters of Recommendation
English teacher
Pretty solid.
AP Chem teacher
Probably mediocre-good.
Research mentor
Heard second-hand that she wrote a really glowing letter.
College Decisions
Accepted (8)
University of Massachusetts, AmherstUniversity of California, San DiegoTufts UniversityUniversity of Illinois, Urbana ChampaignUniversity of Michigan, Ann ArborNortheastern UniversityVanderbilt UniversityYale University
Waitlisted (14)
Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, BerkeleyWashington University in St. LouisUniversity of PennsylvaniaBrown UniversityColumbia UniversityDuke UniversityUniversity of ChicagoJohns Hopkins UniversityCornell UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityNorthwestern UniversityHarvard University
Rejected (3)
Stanford UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyPrinceton University
Profile Tags
ResearchScience OlympiadLeadershipClubAdvanced Coursework (AP/IB/Dual Enrollment)Peer TutorVolunteeringPublic SpeakingEntrepreneurship