From an over-represented country, currently in 10th grade targetting to repeat for 10th grade. Tbh my main concern is that some of this stuff may come out as exaggerated even though none of it is. I’ll list all the proofs on my website and add it in the media section of the application.
Grades: SSAT 98%ile
Got around 95%+ in finals in 10th and 9th but 87% in 8th.(ig my only weak point?)
Here are my ECs, I probably wouldn’t list them all out on my application though, probably only the best ones.
Reached top 100 rank in the country and top 1 rank in the city on Codeforces.
Reached Platinum stage in USACO. (about 2-3% of participants)
Discovered a previously unknown asteroid that was officially credited to me by Minor Planet Center. It is currently listen as Provisional and will be numbered in the next 3-5 years.
Won gold medal in Harvard International Review Academic Writing Contest(Top 3%) and advanced to defense round.
Winner of New York Times ‘My Tiny Memoir’ contest. One of 17 winners out of 15k+ participants.
Apart from that, 5 other of my written pieces were published on New York Times Current Events Conversation.
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 in a authorized virtual environment, with the process also well documented.
Wrote a self-written research paper on a How SAT solvers are affected by variable swaps and obtained feedback from professor at the best CS related college in my country. It was also published on JSAT journal.
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.
Intra-school MUN: created the brochure and handled all technical work and was usg for technological affairs. This was on a smaller scale than interschool one but I did this in 8th.
Founded and was Editor in Chief of annual school magazine: released last year, under editing this year.
Founded the school journalism club and the school newspaper, in which over 10 students write regularly about world news on the website.
Founded Astra International Rocketry Challenge, held 3 sessions in which over 30 people participated. The goal was to design rockets for a specified challenge.
Founded the computing initiative, a non profit that aims to help people learn programming and cybersecurity for completely free. Have had over 300 students. The students then participated in a hackathon that I hosted, I hosted it 3 times with, over 100 participants.
Not so exceptional stuff:
Been the Literary Captain of the house (300+ students).
Managed and trained students for 50+ activities throughout the year.
Built a DIY web-page-controlled car using ESP32-CAM.
Won 2 Best Delegate award with one of them being at a national level MUN conference.
Have also been the Secretary-General of my school’s MUN this year.
$500 website deal (January 2025) and $200 website deal (July 2025). Handled 100+ users and payments of over $2000(50+ subscriptions). Both were full-stack projects involving custom payment gateways, login systems, and more complex features.
Built a personal website featuring achievements.
Secured exceptional recommendation recommendations from the principal and teachers.(it truly is exceptional, I saw it myself)
Studied 4 APs including pre calculus and cs a but couldn’t give exam due to financial constrains.