jaysonB,
Stanford
B.S., Computer Science
Entrepreneurial Stanford Engineering undergrad from NY, working in Silicon Valley
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10
Scores
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Advice
6
ECs
1
Sports
Background
Hometown
New York, New York
GenderMale
EthnicityAsian
AdmissionRegular Decision
Class of2015
First Gen College StudentYes
English First Language
No
Other Language(s) Spoken
Hindi, Spanish
Results, Essays, and Advice
Accepted
Waitlisted or Withdrew
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Applied for a B.S. in Computer Science
Accepted and Enrolled Legacy: NoSchool Specific Essays
Supplemental Essay: Issue of personal significance561 WordsLeibniz, Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire were not my friends. Throughout sophomore year, the phrase “Ecrasez l’infame,” asking to “crush” organized religion, tormented me, even in my sleep. In Candide, Voltaire announced that religion exploited people‟s superstitions and crushed the human spirit. Was the Supreme Being I had been taught to believe in nothing but a deistic God – a clockmaker who built an orderly universe and then left it to operate under natural laws? I spent weeks of tumultuous...Read more...Supplemental Essay: Other132 WordsAt a young age, I abandoned my beloved Lego blocks, and began to imitate the raccoons ravaging my Rubbermaid trash bins outside. Embodying the maxim: “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” I developed a special relationship with refuse. Amid bicycle remnants, piles of soda cans, office supplies, and microwaves, I find curiosity, ingenuity, and rational thought. Garbage is a puzzle, a system of variables where there is never only one correct solution. I have turned soda cans...Read more...Supplemental Essay: Other320 Words“KABARI”, “KABARI!” While visiting my grandparents in New Delhi every alternate summer, the screeching siren of the scrap man doubles as my alarm clock each morning. Without avail, he is scrounging the streets and alleyways at 5am, hoping to buy recyclable refuse from those who will heed his call. Tumbling out of bed, I prepare to go on my daily vegetable hunt with my Nani (grandmother). Peering out of their Tata Nano’s glossy windows, I marvel at the surrounding...Read more...School Specific Advice
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Tree boughs, splintered along the edges. Unevenly scattered, leafy branches, still green at the tips. Strips of bark and mossy greens to form and patch up the earthy roof. A sturdy tree trunk: the structural base of the fragile shelter. A lean-to of organic debris, my forest home for one night. You could call it a mid-teenage crisis, an escape to the Catskill Mountains to stave off the looming burdens of twelfth grade. We thought of it more as a...Read more...General Admissions Advice
How I chose schools to apply to22 WordsI was set on engineering, so looked...Read more...My advice about getting recommenders48 WordsAs with all other advice, please only submit the material a college asks for...Read more...Post-college plans28 WordsI graduated in 2015 and accepted a position at...Read more...Whether I used a private admissions counselor, and advice I received35 WordsHaving applied to >15 schools and having received admission from all, I...Read more...High School Performance
Weighted GPA4.50RankTop 1%
Academic Performance in High School Steady
Test Scores
Highest ACT35ACT Score DetailsOther ACT ScoresACT Prep
Highest SAT1590on 1600 scaleHighest SAT2360SAT Score Details
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AP / IB Classes and Scores
Details8 classes and scoresSports
SportsTennis
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ActivitiesDebate Club/Team, Math Team, Outdoors/Hiking Club, Science Club/Team, Student Council / Government, School Band
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