Quick info: only applying to super reach schools in the US since I do have safeties in Europe that are cheaper
Indian male but live in a small European country (around 10 million people) since 7th grade
EFC: full-pay
Hooks: None
Intended Major: CS
Stats:
IB Diploma (44/45 predicted) with IB Math Analysis and Approaches HL, IB Physics HL, IB Chemistry HL and a 777 in HL subjects
Self-studied AP Calculus BC in Grade 9 on the side: 5/5
Self-studied AP Physics C Mechanics in Grade 10 on the side: 5/5
In 10th grade, did Multivariable Calculus from John Hopkins CTY Online (Final Grade: 97%)
SAT: 1540 (800M, 740ERW)
Awards:
AMC 12 First Place at school
AIME Qualifier
Google certified TensorFlow Developer (had to give a 5hr exam to obtain it)
University of Waterloo CEMC Cayley Mathematics Contest (1st place school, top 1% globally and was on the international honor roll)
JA & ExxonMobil Sci-Tech European Challenge: Won the national round and traveled to Brussels on an all-expenses paid trip to compete against 6 other European countries
FIRST Global Robotics Challenge 2022 Switzerland: Traveled to Geneva on an all expenses-paid trip to represent this small European country
FIRST Global Robotics Challenge 2023 Singapore: Traveled to Singapore on all-expenses paid trip to represent this small European country
Zonal Informatics Olympiad: First stage of Indian IOI selections, technically only happens in India but convinced the coordinator to let me take it in online and qualified for the INOI
In process of getting the DofE gold award
ECs
TEDx: Delivered a TEDx talk on AI to 100+ viewers live and received 12,000+ views on the official TEDx channel
Robotics: Did robotics for all 4 years of HS competing in big competitions like FIRST Global and interschool VEX competitions
Computer Science Club: Leader of this club that tries to help students with CS concepts and discusses new CS concepts
Free math tutoring for 3 years at my school
Mentored my school’s middle school math team and helped them trained for the MathCounts contest
Mentored my school’s middle school LEGO robotics team
Cross country running for 1 year and competed in 2 5km races
Wrote machine learning articles on medium that got read about 2,000 times
LORs: very strong LORs since my teachers and my counsellor like me
Chance me for CS at UC Berkeley, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, CMU!