Computer Science Applicant
Male · White · Large Magnet/Public school (NY)
Income: Upper-Middle Class
AP Exams Taken
- IT Director of Writing CenterBuilt and deployed full-stack website for 3,000+ students and 50+ editors to manage edit requests to school's writing center.
- Mentorship at GoogleLed team that worked with Google developer for three months to build chrome extension-based project. Presented final project to Google NYC employees.
- CS Department EditorManaged department of 10+ members, wrote and edited articles for high school math and CS publication.
- Tutor at CS Tutoring CenterSpent 100+ hours tutoring students in CS after school.
- Logistics Organizer at School Hack-a-thonHelped organize school's 100+ person hack-a-thon, including designing website and reaching out to sponsors and judges.
- 1st Chair Trombonist in School OrchestraPlayed trombone for seven years, including in city-wide marching band, which played at internationally televised ticker-tape parade.
- Intern at Local Political CampaignParticipated in 50+ hours of in-person canvasses over four months, made over 500 phone calls to voters.
- Python Teacher at STEM Education Non-ProfitTaught Python programming language to middle schoolers and helped organize curriculum.
- Intern at Local LibraryWorked with other high schoolers to develop chatbot allowing high school and college students to find internships and other extracurriculars.
- Long-Distance CyclingHobby for 9+ years, completed long-distance biking trips from NY to cities like Philadelphia, Providence, Montauk, and Montreal. Biked 100 miles per day, with longest trip of 400 miles in 4 days.
- Music Composition HobbyComposed classical pieces using MuseScore, wrote ambient electronic music, performed live-looped music using a Moog synthesizer, taught myself guitar and drums.
- ★2nd Place at School Hack-a-thon
- ★USACO Silver
- ★AP Scholar
Essay Topics
Analogized my life to the software development life cycle.
Intro to CS and APCS Teacher and Web Development Teacher
We have a super positive relationship as I've had him for two and a half years, and he's been involved in multiple extracurricular activities I'm a part of. He has lots of specific details to mention about me and has referred to me as "one of the best students he's ever had."
Political Writing Teacher
Was only her class for one semester, but knew her really well during that time. I participated in class very frequently and we often continued discussions after class and in office hours. Spoke very highly of me at parent-teacher conferences, praised my final project greatly, and mentioned that she would use it as an example for future classes.
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