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Computer ScientistClass of 20233.8+1500+/34+stem
Computer Science Applicant
M · AA and W · Central Europe · Private international
🏷️ URM
Income: Middle-class, EFC equivalent to your average in-state tuition
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
4 (UW)
SAT
1580
Class Rank
1/40
IB Courses
6
Extracurricular Activities
- Self-taught Mandarin Chinese to fluency
- Software Engineer Intern at a Fortune 500 company
- Co-founded a major Chinese-learner-targeted literature and language-acquisition website
- Personal open-source coding projects
- Head developer of school student magazine website
- Founder and co-leader of school CS club
- Paid content writer for a major publisher of Chinese easy readers
- Authored a fantasy series with over 1000 copies sold
- Blogging on personal site
- 1-1 tutoring for a talented math student
Awards & Honors
- ★Valedictorian award for the past three years
- ★Excellence in CS award, high-school wide
- ★Best Solo Hack at an international high school hackathon
- ★Full merit scholarship to school
- ★Best in School, Gold Award at an international senior math competition
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
Discussed learning to not hyperfocus on time allocation through mastering Mandarin
Interview Experiences
- Stanford University
- Performance/Outcome: Interviewed online, lost voice, weak Wi-Fi
Letters of Recommendation
Advanced math teacher
9 out of 10
CS teacher
10 out of 10
College Decisions
Accepted (8)
Cornell UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State UniversityPomona CollegeVirginia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Massachusetts, AmherstSan Jose State University
Waitlisted (3)
Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesNortheastern University
Rejected (3)
Stanford UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyTufts University
Profile Tags
ResearchAdvanced CourseworkLeadershipFounderClubSTEM ClubCodingRoboticsVolunteeringTutoringPublic SpeakingCreative Writing