Chance me - Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul’s, and equivalent

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Hey, I am a student from India 10th Grade, applying to Andover and equivalent HCs.(Full financial aid needed)
Here are my Achievements:

  • 50k website deal (January 2025) and 20k website deal (July 2025). Handled 100+ users and payments of over ₹2 lakhs. Both were full-stack projects involving custom payment gateways, login systems, and more complex features.

  • SSAT 98%ile

  • Reached top 100 in the country and top 1 in the city among thousands of competitors on Codeforces.

  • Wrote a self-written research paper on a CS topic and obtained feedback from a professor at the best CS related collage in India(IIT).

  • Founded and was Editor in Chief of annual school magazine: released last year, under editing this year.

  • Founded and organized an interschool coding competition.

  • Mentored students on programming/cybersecurity, with a total reach of around 50+ people.

  • Attended 6 MUNs in total. Won 2 Best Delegate award with one of them being at a national level MUN conference.

  • Scored around 95%+ in finals in 10th and 9th but 87% in 8th.

  • Have 300+ hours in volunteered religious work.

  • Multiple well-documented projects on GitHub, including Python cybersecurity tools and a custom-made programming language that was able to penetrate a home-grade firewall, with the process also well documented. Also remotely hacked a Windows 7 VM and deeply know kali linux.

  • Intra-school MUN (December): created the brochure and handled all technical work and was usg for technological affairs.

  • Interschool MUN: built the website with registration integrated, designed the brochure, Instagram assets, and certificate designs. Served as USG for Technological Affairs. Event had 100+ delegates from 7 schools. It was also recognized by national government. Won Best Secretariat award at the interschool MUN.

  • Been the Literary Captain of the house (300+ students). Managed and trained students for 50+ activities throughout the year. House finished 1st among 4 other.

  • Built a DIY web-page-controlled car using ESP32-CAM.

  • Published some blogs covering CS topics.

  • Built a personal website featuring achievements.

  • Secured strong recommendation recommendations from the principal and teachers.

  • Became a moderator at a 100k-member coding Discord community.

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