Chance computational musicology fella for Stanford/Ivies
hi pls predict my results!! ty :)
Demographics
Gender: male
Race/Ethnicity: south asian
Residence: CA
Income Bracket: full pay
Type of School: medium-competition SoCal public
Hooks: none
Intended Major(s): computer science 💀, cs+music at ivies
Academics
GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW, 4.73W
Class Rank: 22/448
Standardized Testing
SAT: 1590; 800RW, 790M (not superscored)
AP/IB: 5 CSP, 5 Chem, 5 Bio, 5 CSA, 4 World, 5 Physics 1, 5 APUSH, 5 Lang, 5 Calc AB
Extracurriculars/Activities (I love being niche with cs+music 👍)
Music+CS Researcher at top creative tech university building/programming electronic "hyperinstruments," coauthored paper published at PhD conference, legit coauthor, rec letter from department dean
Independent Computational Musicology Research, created the world's first research-grade AI-based assessment system for musical performances on my instrument, submitted research to PhD conference
Music+CS Internship at music tech company building and programming technological music installations
Music+CS Summer Program, pretty reputable and competitive (<5% AR) summer program for music+cs
AI/ML NLP Summer Research, unpublished summer program research on truth analysis of fake news headlines, won an award for it
Marching Band and Percussion, huge time commitment (>20hrs/week, captain), state champion for CA(most competitive state) in marching band and percussion, world championship qualifier for percussion
Founder and President of AI Tutoring Club for club/local org that educates 200+ middle schoolers on python/ai/robotics, spent a lot of time developing curriculum for this and it's pretty high impact
Vice President of BME Society, organize guest talks and workshops for local companies and attend conferences for BME projects, one of the more active clubs on campus with a large attending, grown membership by 50+ members
Wind Ensemble Percussion Section Leader at my school's wind ensemble, multiple state accolades and unanimous superiors
Object Detection Research for self-driving cars as part of a summer program, research unpublished
Awards/Honors (lowk worst part of app)
top 10 in the us for a less prestigious math comp (not mainstream olympiad)
national merit semifinalist (1520 psat)
state level marching band gold x2
state level percussion gold x1, silver x1, 2x world champs qualifier
best research award from fake news research (1/25 groups in program)
Letters of Recommendation
ap physics 1 + ap physics c teacher (8.5/10), known me for 2 years
ap calc ab teacher (7/10)
research professor, is extremely well regarded music cs professor and has connections with stanford/princeton (10/10), basically called me a grad-level researcher
counselor, one of her favorite students and can definitely advocate for me (9/10)
Essays
idk how to rate essays. my ea essays were alright and my common app is good, but my rd essays are definitely looking much better
also providing music supplementals for ivies/stanford, i play a niche instrument at a near-conservatory level, so it could help
Schools (try to predict my results for fun)
ca public: UC Berkeley EECS, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSB CCS Computing, Cal Poly SLO
oos public: Purdue EA, UIUC EA, Georgia Tech EA, UT Austin EA, UWash RD
priv: USC, Columbia CS+Music, Yale Computing + Arts, Brown CS+Music, Princeton CS+Music, Stanford CS+Music, CMU CS+Music Tech (SCS)
Posted Dec 8, 2025, 3:36 AM UTC