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AI/ML NLP Summer Research, unpublished summer program research on truth analysis of fake news headlines, won an award for it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Object Detection Research for self-driving cars as part of a summer program, research unpublished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

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